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DR. HENRY HOFFMAN 

On His 72nd Birthday, Author of 
“A Perfect Life and How To Live It ” 

One of the World's Greatest Healers and the 
Greatest Authority on Right Living in all 
respects. Up to now, HE HAS HEALED ALL 
WHO HAVE APPLIED TO HIM. He cures 
all kinds of diseases by his methods. 






A PERFECT LIFE 

AN D 

HOW TO LIVE IT 

BY 

HENRY HOFFMAN, D.S.T., 

Omaha, Nebraska. 


PUBLISHED BY 

ART CARD COMPANY, 

OMAHA, NEBRASKA 

1921-1923 



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Copyright, 1923 
By Henry Hoffman, D. S. T. 

Copyright, 1921 
By Henry Hoffman, D. S. T. 

All Rights Reserved, including that of Transla¬ 
tion into Foreign Languages. 

The material in this work is fully protected 
under the Copyright Laws of the United States. 
All persons are warned against making any use 
of it without permission. 

SECOND EDITION 


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“Know thyself and thou wilt know 
the Universe and the Gods.” 

—Inscription on the Temple of Delphi. 


Be wise, believe right, sleep 
right, bathe right, eat right, exer¬ 
cise right, dress right and live right 
and you can become perfect and 
live happily on this earth as long 
as you want to. 


—The Author. 


DEDICATION. 

The information contained in this book is 
given out for the benefit of all beings, including 
the boys and girls, men and women of all coun¬ 
tries. 

The author desires that the truths herein 
explained and set forth, may bring the inhabi¬ 
tants of the whole world together in one har¬ 
monious and helpful brother-sister-hood, each 
claiming nothing that is not equally and freely 
granted to all others. 

BY THE AUTHOR. 


Omaha, Nebr., Sep. 6,1921. 


“Strait is the gate, and narrow is 
the way which leadeth unto life.” 


—Jesus of Nazareth . 


PREFACE. 

The author of this book has been gathering 
valuable information since his early childhood. 
For many years he has felt that this knowledge 
would help many boys and girls as well as men 
and women, to lead happier, healthier and 
better lives. 

After many years of careful research— 
among the numerous books upon the length of 
human life—and after numerous experiments of 
his own upon himself—the thought came to him 
that he could, by living a perfect life to the very 
best of his knowledge, prolong his life as long as 
he might desire, and further, that such a life 
would be rewarded by making him free from all 
worry from all sources, and would enable him to 
grow stronger, better, happier and wiser as the 
years passed. He at once—as near as possible 
under his then circumstances—commenced to 
live a perfect life, and has ever since continued 
same, with results way beyond his expectations. 

He has been able to develop all weak muscles 
to the right size, to remove the wrinkles from his 
face, and all pains from his body. So now he is 
able to sleep like a healthy child, and to live 
upon the plain and simple vegetable foods, so 
much relished by healthy children. In short, 
he is entirely free from all disturbances, both 


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mental and physical, and enjoys all his work as 
he never before could enjoy it. 

So he reasons that if living a perfect life can 
do all this for him, it will do as much for any one 
who will live it as it can be lived by all who 
desire to so live. 

This book is written to give, all who desire 
to live a perfect life, a guide to point out the 
way. We have used the simplest language 
possible, and have avoided all such words as are 
likely to be unintelligible to many of those in 
search of the knowledge herein contained. 

We hope that all will read it carefully, and 
thoughtfully, and put all the knowledge at once 
into practice. A copy should be put into the 
hands of every boy and girl as well as into the 
hands of every man and woman. 

It is easier to form a good habit than a bad 
habit, because the good habit is in harmony 
with Nature's—God's—laws, while the bad 
habits are only acquired by making an un¬ 
natural effort—doing a thing that is at first 
repulsive and not in harmony with nature. 

Any one who will live the perfect life for a 
period of two years, will never afterwards 
depart from it. We can assure you that we are 
not giving you a single law, or rule, that has not 
been thoroughly tried out by us. 

Yours sincerely, 

Henry Hoffman, d. S. t. 


CONTENTS AND INDEX 

PAGE 

ACTIVITY IS LIFE. 23 

ALCOHOLISM. 85 

ALMONDS. 59 

AMOUNT OF FOOD. 79 

A NATURAL APPETITE. 26 

ANTIDOTES.25 

A PERFECT GOD.27 

A PERFECT MAN.182-185 

A PERFECT WOMAN.185-186 

ASPARAGUS AND GREEN PEAS.60-61 

AURA.157-159 

AUTOLOGY.160-164 

BATHING.41-42 

BELIEF.19 

BEST FOODS.50 

BEST MENUS.66-71 

BLADDER.114-115 

BODILY ORGANS.19 

BONES.115 

BREATHING.43 

BRIGHT COLORS.27 

BUTTER.55 

CARE OF CHILDREN.165-173 

CAUTION IN EATING.63-65 

CHANGE HABITS GRADUALLY.38-40 

CHEESE.53 

CLOTHING.44 

COFFEE, TEA AND OTHER DRINKS.80-83 

COOKING VEGETABLES.61 

COLD WEATHER.30 

CONSTIPATION, HOW RELIEVED.86-87 

CORN, BARLEY, BUCKWHEAT, KAFFIR-CORN, RYE 59-60 

COUGHING.24 

CREAM.53-55 

DAILY PROGRAM.21 

DEBTORS TO HUMANITY.25 

DESIRE AND WILL RIGHTLY DIRECTED.26 


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14 CONTENTS AND INDEX 

PAGE 

DIVINE FORCE.25 

DISEASE.46-47 

EARS.121-122 

EDUCATION.95-96 

EFFECT OF MIND ON BODY.20 

EGGS.51-52 

ETHEREAL MAGNETIC FLUID.151-152 

ETERNAL LIFE.21 

ETERNAL LIFE BY RIGHT LIVING.45 

EXERCISE AND WORK.89-93 

EYES.125-127 

FACE.130-131 

FASTING.174-178 

FEET.133-134 

FINITE MIND.36 

FLESH MEAT.84 

FOODS.48-49 

FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.150-151 

FRESH AIR AND SUNLIGHT.25 

FRUITS.62 

FRUIT MEALS.71-72 

FRUITS SHOULD BE RIPE.76-77 

GOD.31-32 

GREEN CORN.60 

HAIR.127-130 

HANDS.132-133 

HARMONIZE WITH NATURE.23 

HARMONY.19 

HAVE ALL VEGETABLES FRESH. 62 

HEALTH SUGGESTIONS.77-79 

HEALTH ECONOMY.143-144 

HEALTHFUL COMBINATIONS OF FOOD. 65-66 

HEART AND LUNGS.120-121 

HEIGHT AND WEIGHT. 98-99 

HIGHER POWERS. 23 

HIGHEST IDEAL. 46 

HOT SEASON CLOTHING. 26 

HOW GOD CREATES ANIMALS. 33-35 

HOT WEATHER. 30 

HOW TO COOK. 73-74 

HOW TO DEVELOP. 24 

HOW WE LIVE. 26 

HOW WE PROGRESS. 28 

IDEAL FATHER. 186-187 














































CONTENTS AND INDEX 


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PAGE 

IDEAL MOTHER.188-189 

IDEAL PROGRAM.141-142 

IGNORANT FOOLMAN.206-211 

INTESTINES.116-118 

IMMUNE AGAINST DISEASE.25 

INFINITE MIND OF OUR UNIVERSE.35 

INTRODUCTION.17 

KIDNEYS.114 

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.22 

LARYNX AND THROAT.107-108 

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE.29 

LIGHTNING.154-155 

LIVE AS A LITTLE CHILD.27 

LIVER.111-112 

LONGEVITY.190-196 

MAN AN INSTRUMENT OF NATURE.20 

MANIFESTATIONS OF LIFE.21 

MENUS.66-71 

MILK.52-53 

MILK CURE.179-181 

MINDS AID EACH OTHER.28 

MOVEMENT FOR HEALTH.24 

MUSCLES.116 

NATURE’S HELP.23 

NATURE’S THREE CLASSES.20 

NATURAL DEEP BREATHING.25 

NARROW WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE.197-199 

NATURE WORKS SLOWLY.27 

NERVES.119-120 

NEWMAN WISE.218-223 

NORMA GOODMAN.212-217 

NORMAL WISEMAN.201-205 

NOSE.123-124 

NUTS.62 

OATS.57-58 

OLD AGE.224-229 

ORGANIZED MATTER.19 

OUR UNIVERSE.22 

PANCREAS.112-113 

PEANUTS.58-59 

PERFECT ECONOMY.27 

PERFECT HAPPINESS.147-148 

PERPETUAL YOUTH.27 

POISONS.48 














































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CONTENTS AND INDEX 


PAGE 

POTATOES.59 

PRACTICE RIGHT LIVING.22 

PREFACE.11 

RECREATION.94-95 

RETIRING FROM BUSINESS.102-104 

RICE.59 

SALIVA.108-109 

SELF MASTERY.22 

SIN.148-149 

SKIN.135-139 

SEX ORGANS.159-160 

SLEEP.87-88 

SLEEP RESTORES.24 

SNEEZING.24 

SPLEEN.134-135 

STOMACH.110-111 

STRING BEANS.60 

SUN-LIGHT.99-100 

SYSTEMATIC LIVING.140 

TELEPATHY.47 

TEETH.104-106 

THE HOUR NEVER STRIKES.26 

THE LAW IS PROGRESSION OR RETROGRESSION.28 

THE NEW DOCTRINE.30 

THE NEW WORLD.45-46 

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. 26 

THE WATER OF LIFE.29 

TIME TO EAT.79-80 

TOBACCOISM.84-85 

TONGUE.106-107 

UNIVERSAL LOVE. 145-146 

UNIVERSAL TRUTHS. 19 

VEGETABLES TO BE COOKED. 61 

VEGETABLES TO BE USED RAW. 61 

VIBRATIONS. 153-154 

VITAMINES AND LIVE CELLS. 74-76 

WAY TO EAT. 80 

WEATHER CONDITIONS. ‘ 101 

WHAT TO READ. ' 96-97 

WHEAT THE FOOD OF THE GODS. 83-84 

WHAT WE ARE—THE “I AM”. 156-157 

WHAT WORK WE SHOULD DO. 36-37 

WHOLE WHEAT. ' “ ' 56-57 

WORLD GOVERNMENT. ' 200 














































INTRODUCTION. 

In introducing you to The Perfect Life and 
How to Live It, will first give the formula 
which is: 

Sleep right, eat the right amount of the right 
kind of food at the right time in the right way, 
exercise all the muscles in the body in the right 
way at the right time and in the right amount 
under the best conditions, bathe right, dress right, 
think right and believe right 
This formula, as here you see it, may not 
mean much to you, but contains all of the nu¬ 
merous things required of you to enable you to 
live a perfect life, which will give you all possible 
health, bodily perfection, mental perfection, ec¬ 
static joy everlasting life, and in every way 
satisfy you when you once have realized all we 
have here expressed in this formula. 

Most persons think that in order to enjoy 
themselves, they must dissipate. The word 
dissipate means to destroy, and whenever you 
vary in the least from what the above formula 
contains, you destroy yourself to that extent. 
Ignorance is the cause of all the misery that you 
see. Ignorance leads to selfishness, and selfish¬ 
ness leads to dissipation, sickness and death. 


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Whenever all of humanity knows the absolute 
truth, which is briefly embodied in the above 
formula, all selfishness, dissipation, sickness and 
death will vanish. 

Before beginning the detailed interpretation 
of our formula we will first present you with a 
number of wisdom sayings which contain great 
primary and valuable truths, all of which you 
should often read over and meditate upon. 


UNIVERSAL TRUTHS. 


ORGANIZED MATTER. 

1. Physical science has divided matter into 
molecules, molecules into atoms, atoms into 
electrons—energy—and all is the manifestation 
of mind. An electron, is quite likely a minute 
universe, fashioned after our own—or some 
other—and again composed of other smaller 
universes to an infinite division, the larger being 
designated as the Macrocosm and the smaller as 
the Microcosm. 

HARMONY. 

2. By harmonizing completely with the 
universal law, and working in perfect harmony 
with it, we become able to accomplish any good 
work that we undertake. 

BELIEF. 

3. Belief has an all powerful effect on the 
body for good or evil. When we know we are 
right we should also know—believe fully—that 
in following the right course we will accomplish 
our desire. 

BODILY ORGANS. 

4. Avoid prudishness. Know the truth as 
to all of the bodily organs. Never exercise— 
except for procreation—or in any way interfere 


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with or disturb the sexual organs, as they 
mature and remain in the best possible condition 
when left entirely alone. Avoid sexual dissipa¬ 
tion as it is self murder. 

EFFECT OF MIND ON BODY. 

5. The human body is a product of mind, 
and its health depends largely on the state of 
the mind. If the mind is fully satisfied that the 
environments, food, conditions for exercise, 
sleep, and all other necessary conditions, are 
entirely satisfactory for health, and that the 
patient can recover, a rapid recovery is assured. 
In all cases where patient does not recover, under 
above conditions, it is because patient is not 
mentally sure of recovery. 

NATURE’S THREE CLASSES. 

6. The lowest beings obey Nature's—God's 
—laws through instinct—intuition—and the 
highest through reason—wisdom—and the inter¬ 
mediate beings violate these laws through ignor¬ 
ance and suffer. 

MAN AN INSTRUMENT OF NATURE. 

7. Man is only an instrument through which 
Nature manifests itself and accomplishes its 
works. He should work in harmony with 
Nature's other instruments and obey Nature's 
laws. 


UNIVERSAL TRUTHS 


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ETERNAL LIFE. 

8. Man can live on this earth forever, if 
he thinks as he should, lives as he should, and 
joins his fellow organisms for universal progress 
and happiness. All accidents after a while can 
be prevented. All organisms are capable of 
becoming more perfect, more powerful and more 
beautiful, as time goes on, if the surroundings 
are right, the belief right and the mind can 
constantly be kept in an ecstatic condition. To 
bring this happy condition about, each one must 
work for the universal advancement of all others, 
having nothing for his enjoyment, that is not 
equally supplied to all others. Those who are 
wiser and stronger than their neighbors, must 
help their neighbors to acquire their wisdom and 
strength. 

DAILY PROGRAM. 

9. Each individual should have the best 
possible course prescribed for each day with 
plenty of time for exercise, rest and sleep. The 
most suitable food should be eaten in the right 
amount, at the right time, in the right way, and 
under the most favorable conditions for the 
person served. The daily program should pro¬ 
vide for everything each day that the individual 
should do. 

MANIFESTATIONS OF LIFE. 

10. The mind, through the nervous system, 
operating on the muscles and glands, produces 


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all manifestations of life. Therefore right, con¬ 
structive, harmonious, healthful thinking helps 
in perfecting the body and in maintaining it in 
perfect health. Striving to promote the highest 
happiness of all, by equalizing the labors of all, 
and sharing the benefits equally among all, is 
one beneficial course to be persued. Every 
right thought is beneficial to us, and to humanity. 
Every wrong thought is detrimental to us, and 
also to humanity. 

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. 

11. As we know more of the truth, we have 
more power to use in self control, and can more 
effectively live the right way. 

SELF MASTERY. 

12. Having completely mastered ourselves, 
we can then intuitively live the perfect life, and 
effectively teach others. 

PRACTICE RIGHT LIVING. 

13. Man should believe what he has sanc¬ 
tioned as the truth, and live the perfect life to 
the best of his ability, concentrating all his 
forces to acquire perfection. 

OUR UNIVERSE. 

14. We are a necessary part of our universe, 
and to render it the best service, we should 
become perfect and continue absolutely perfect. 
Our universe is our God. We are Gods to the 


UNIVERSAL TRUTHS 


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universes composing our bodies. When we fail 
to live a perfect life, we fail to do justice to both 
the universe of which we are a part, and also to 
all the universes composing our bodies. 

NATURE’S HELP. 

15. When you teach mankind how to live 
perfect lives, and become perfect, you are work¬ 
ing in harmony with God—Nature—and will 
receive His all powerful help. 

HARMONIZE WITH NATURE. 

16. Think only thoughts of perfection, 
harmony, happiness, good will, love, true and 
everlasting perfection, and happiness for all 
beings without exception. Work constantly in 
harmony with Nature—God—to perfect all and 
make all eternally happy. 

HIGHER POWERS. 

17. We do not live by food and drink alone, 
but must depend also on other and finer things— 
essences we know little about—to attain our 
higher powers. 

ACTIVITY IS LIFE. 

18. Imitate the healthy boys and girls in 
their innocent and pure thoughts, free from care 
and worry, enjoying their work and play. Run, 
jump, roll, tumble and exercise as they do. 
Activity is life. Stagnation is death. Laugh 


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heartily as the children do. Live the perfect 
life and remain eternally young. 

SNEEZING. 

19. Sneezing is a healthy exercise. It opens 
up the air passages and removes irritating matter 
from the air chambers of the nose. 

COUGHING. 

20. Coughing is a healthy exercise. It 
removes irritating matter from lungs, bronchial 
tubes and throat. 

HOW TO DEVELOP. 

21. The mind—working through the nervous 
system—causes the muscles of the body to 
perform all kinds of motions necessary to a 
perfect development of every part of the body, 
and also enables the individual to do all kinds of 
work. 

SLEEP RESTORES. 

22. Perfect sleep at least once every twenty- 
four hours—usually from 8 to 10 hours—between 
9 p. m. and 7 a. m.—is necessary to restore all 
parts of the body to a natural and healthful 
condition. 

MOVEMENT FOR HEALTH. 

23. We are starting a movement, that will 
produce a world of healthy and happy people, 
capable of perpetual existence if they desire it. 


UNIVERSAL TRUTHS 


25 


IMMUNE AGAINST DISEASE. 

24. A perfectly healthy person is immune 
against all disease, so long as he lives a perfect 
life. His perfectly pure blood is an antidote 
that destroys all disease germs. 

FRESH AIR AND SUNLIGHT. 

25. Pure fresh air and sunlight are necessary 
for ideal health. Have plenty of both in all 
sleeping and living rooms. 

NATURAL DEEP BREATHING. 

26. Natural deep breathing of pure fresh 
air, invigorates and vitalizes the system. Vig¬ 
orous exercise promotes natural deep breathing. 

ANTIDOTES. 

27. Antidotes for poisons and medicines 
to destroy parasites that cause external—and in 
some cases internal irritations—are useful. 

DEBTORS TO HUMANITY. 

28. We are debtors to humanity to the 
extent of our wealth, whether in money, property, 
mentality or morality. We must give of our 
wealth freely that all may be able to live the 
perfect life. To withhold from humanity any 
real benefit is a sin. 

DIVINE FORCE. 

29. All force is—in its essence—divine, and 
if turned in the right direction, is all compelling 


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and all conquering. We should turn all forces 
to useful and beneficial work. 

THE HOUR NEVER STRIKES. 

30. Live a perfect life, and be the person for 
whom the hour never strikes. 

DESIRE AND WILL RIGHTLY DIRECTED. 

31. A strong desire and will—rightly direct¬ 
ed and in perfect harmony with the laws of 
Nature—can do most anything. 

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. 

32. The unpardonable sin is to believe we 
will die, no matter what we do, in perfecting 
ourselves and complying with the Father’s— 
Nature’s—immutable laws. Avoid this false 
belief, because it is fatal. 

A NATURAL APPETITE. 

33. Do not cultivate an abnormal appetite 
by using stimulants of any kind. A natural 
appetite—hunger—calls for that kind of food 
that contains the necessary bodily elements. 
Follow our menus if you desire the right foods. 

HOT SEASON CLOTHING. 

34. Hot season clothing should be loosely 
woven, and loosely worn, so air can circulate 
freely about the body. 

HOW WE LIVE. 

35. In God—Nature—Our Universe—we 
live and move and have our being. 


UNIVERSAL TRUTHS 


27 


BRIGHT COLORS. 

36. Have buildings, rooms, clothing and 
surroundings in bright colors. These are Na¬ 
ture's colors. They inspire us with life, health 
and happiness. 

PERFECT ECONOMY. 

37 Perfect economy should be practised in all 
things. This is Nature's policy. We should 
follow her example. 

A PERFECT GOD. 

38. The Universe of which we are a part 
and in which we live and move and have our 
being is a perfect God. We should obey his 
perfect and immutable laws and live in perfect 
harmony with them. 

LIVE AS A LITTLE CHILD. 

39. Live as a little child in simplicity, faith¬ 
fulness and in all that is good, true and beautiful, 
and you can become perfect and always live the 
perfect life. 

PERPETUAL YOUTH. 

40. All are perfected by each individual 
becoming perfect. The fountain of perpetual 
youth is in each of us, and if we will use it right 
we can become perfect and live happily forever. 

NATURE WORKS SLOWLY. 

41. Nature works slowly. Do not expect 
great results too soon. Any improvement shows 


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A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

you are succeeding. ' Never vary from right 
living as the reward is sure. 

MINDS AID EACH OTHER. 

42. The mind, properly controlled and 
directed, builds the body at any age as desired 
by the individual, and is aided by other minds 
working in harmony with it. Where two are 
agreed that a right thing shall be done, it shall 
be done. 

THE LAW IS PROGRESSION OR RETROGRESSION. 

43. Those who do not improve by added 
health, perfection, strength, beauty and wisdom, 
begin to degenerate, dissipate and die. The law 
is progression or retrogression. 

HOW WE PROGRESS. 

44. When we have perfect control of our¬ 
selves, and live the perfect ideal life, we become 
better, more beautiful, happier, stronger and 
wiser as the years pass, without any limit to the 
extent of the development in length of time or 
extent of the perfections attained. Do not 
fix a limit and believe you can not exceed it. As 
you think so are you. If you think you can, 
you can. If you think you can't, you can't. 
I can and I will does all things. I can not and 
will not try, always fails. As you think and 
believe, so are the results. 


UNIVERSAL TRUTHS 


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THE WATER OF LIFE. 

45. Fresh rain-water as it falls, is the water 
of life. All living organisms are created in this 
water, and all are invigorated and vitalized by 
being bathed in it. It is Nature's—God's— 
creative fluid. No chemist can make a water 
like it. To get the full benefit of it, have a 
bath-room with no cover, and when it begins 
to rain, undress and stand in this room and 
bathe in the only water that will completely 
and perfectly invigorate, vitalize and restore 
you to perfect health. This is the water that 
vegetation grows from, and that bathes all of 
the animal creation—except man, some domestic 
animals and caged animals. There are vital 
elements and forces in it, we can not analyze, 
but we do know that it has a more powerful 
vitalizing effect, than any other water. 

LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE. 

46. Each person has a sun within himself, 
and when he or she smiles and in any way ex¬ 
presses universal love by helping others to more 
easily perform—themselves—such work as they 
may have to do, it is letting this sun shine. So 
always let your light shine and dispel all of the 
darkness that may be about you. Always be 
happy and make your sun light dispel all clouds 
of gloom in all directions from all other beings. 


30 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

A kind word may save a life, and turn it in the 
right direction any time. 

HOT WEATHER. 

47. Hot weather gives us the benefit of the 
Turkish Bath, whether we are willing to take 
it or not. This cleanses the body and is highly 
beneficial. 

COLD WEATHER. 

48. Cold weather is highly beneficial by 
increasing our vitality. After the cleansing 
effect of the hot season, the cold is a wonderful 
tonic and does us much good. 

THE NEW DOCTRINE. 

49. The person who sleeps perfectly, eats 
the right amount of the right kind of food at the 
right time in the right way, exercises all the 
muscles of his body in the right way at the right 
time and to the right extent as also all his mental 
and spiritual faculties, loves all his neighbors as 
himself, works to have every thing perfected as 
far as possible in the world, and for perfect and 
harmonious order, and believes and teaches that 
all of this is to make all things and persons 
happy all the time, can continue his existence on 
this earth as long as he desires. 


GOD. 


God is the universe and all it contains, both 
material and spiritual. He, through his numer¬ 
ous agents—human beings and other animals— 
is constantly increasing his highest happiness 
by promoting the highest happiness of all existing 
beings. 

We, therefore, are happiest when helping him 
in his efforts. God asks no praise, and makes no 
one to suffer who obeys his immutable laws, 
which are shown in all his works, and are known 
as Nature’s Laws. He created all things and 
fixed His immutable laws to govern them, and so 
arranged it for all eternity, that so long as man¬ 
kind should abide perfectly by his laws, they 
should continue to increase their vitality, happi¬ 
ness and wisdom and live perpetually free from 
death, pain and all the penalties that are im¬ 
posed by his unchangeable, self-executing laws. 
For slight violations of His laws, pain is the 
consequence, and for greater violations, the 
penalty is death. So it becomes our duty to 
study His immutable laws, and learn what we 
must do to fully obey them in order that we may 
have perpetual existence, and with it that 
highest happiness that all desire. To deny the 

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above truths, is the unpardonable sin. To 
believe these truths and comply with the perfect, 
immutable—unchangeable—laws, is the narrow 
way that leads to everlasting life, perfection and 
eternal happiness. 

By obeying the immutable laws of Nature— 
God—we can return, as did the prodigal son, to 
the Father's house. 


HOW GOD CREATES ANIMALS. 


When the author of this book was a small 
child, residing on his father's farm—about two 
miles north of the then town of Auburn, Indiana 
—he found after a thunder-storm in the spring 
of the year, many small fish, all about one inch 
in length, on the ground, in the rain-barrel, and 
even a few on the porch where the wind had 
blown the rain. All were of the same size, and all 
perfectly formed and all very active and full of 
life. This was in one of the years between 1856 
and 1859, as the author of this book was born on 
September 6th, 1851, according to the family 
record. It is now clear to him that these fish 
were created by electricity during the rain-storm 
up in the clouds, where were the four great 
elements of animal bodies: Oxygen, Hydrogen, 
Nitrogen and Carbon, as well as the other 
elements that in smaller quantities enter into 
the formation of animal bodies. There were no 
bodies of water with such fish in them anywhere 
near the place where these rained down, and had 
they been carried there by means of a cyclone, 
there would have been fish of many varieties 
and sizes. So from all the circumstances at¬ 
tending the raining down of these fish, we can 
only account for it as a demonstration of the 
way in which God creates animals. 


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After other thunder-storms in a few instances, 
all occurring in the warm season of the year, I 
have seen fish-worms in the rain-barrel, as well 
as on the surface of the ground, which could only 
have come from the clouds where they were 
created by the action of electricity during the 
storm. Again after other thunder-storms in 
later years, I have seen thousands of frogs, all 
the same size, covering many acres of land, all 
perfectly formed. And still again after other 
thunder-storms, I have seen thousands of toads, 
all the same size, covering many acres of land. 
I have had a few persons with whom I talked 
about these things, tell me that they also had, on 
a few occasions, seen the same quantities of frogs 
or toads after thunder-storms in the warm 
season. So this, satisfies me, that when God 
sees a necessity for stocking any part of the earth 
with any animal, he creates them by means of 
electricity, so that no part of the earth may be 
without those animals that can live and enjoy 
themselves in the localities in which they are 
created. We, therefore, reason that if He can 
thus create and does create fish, fish-worms, frogs 
and toads, he can in like manner create human 
beings and all other forms of animals. While 
this may seem to be contrary to the theory of 
evolution, we hold that, with the facts before 


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stated, before us, we can not reason otherwise. 
Even on the theory of evolution, the life germ to 
be developed must first be created as a starting 
point, and if the great Intelligence that creates 
this germ, can create it, He can also create other 
and higher organisms, mankind, elephants, 
horses, cattle and so on. 


INFINITE MIND OF OUR UNIVERSE. 

The mind of Our Universe exists in the matter 
composing the earth, other planets of our solar 
system, sun, moon and such heavenly bodies as 
belong to what we call the universe, and con¬ 
trols it and regulates it, as we control and regu¬ 
late our bodies, and such finite things as we 
can and do control. We are a part of this great 
body—called the universe—and live and move 
and have our being in it. The Infinite Mind has 
established laws governing all nature, and when 
we obey these laws, we are strong and well and 
happy and constantly become stronger, better 
and happier. In obeying the laws of the Infinite 
Mind, we become co-workers with it, and can 
accomplish much to improve the health and 
happiness of humanity. 


FINITE MIND. 


The mind rules itself—and through the 
nerves—the body. As the tissues of the body 
are composed of minute cells, all of which are 
supplied with nerves, the mind can through the 
medium of these nerves control all parts of the 
body, not excepting even the bones, cartilages 
ligaments, tendons and nerves themselves. The 
mind also controls itself and says what it shall 
think, and what ideas it shall entertain. Ideas 
that are ennobling and elevating, only, should 
be entertained. If we live perfect lives, our 
minds will rule our bodies and minds, as the Infi¬ 
nite Mind rules itself and its body—which is 
our universe. 


WHAT WORK WE SHOULD DO. 

We should do only that kind of work, which 
is useful in promoting the highest permanent 
happiness of all human and other beings, such 
as cultivation of land in the raising of useful 
products, necessary transportation, manufactur¬ 
ing of necessary articles, distribution of those 
things necessary to the health and comfort of 
people, and such things as are educational and 


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help to educate, and make homes beautiful and 
comfortable. Under the present organization of 
governments, service rendered for the govern¬ 
ments, world, national, state, district, county, 
city, town or any other subdivision, as well as 
necessary instruction in the various established 
schools, both public and private, where right 
thinking and living is taught. We should avoid 
producing poisons and also furnishing them 
to anyone. We should study to learn what 
is beneficial and detrimental to humanity, and 
as fast as we learn as to such things, should put 
it into practice. We should also, as far as we are 
in possession of knowledge beneficial to human¬ 
ity, impart it to them. We also should teach by 
example, as well as by precept, as to what is 
right living, right vocation and right thinking. 
We should be as kind and helpful to our fellow 
beings, as we would wish them to be to us. Our 
own highest happiness requires all of this, and if 
we do not perform this duty fully, we are the 
lowers. 


CHANGE HABITS GRADUALLY. 

Changes in established habits should be 
gradual and not too sudden. One who has been 
accustomed to a small amount of exercise, must 
begin to increase that amount gradually, and as 
it will be found agreeable, otherwise the exercise 
will be injurious instead of beneficial. If the 
exercise is walking, or doing any other work in 
amount above what you are used to, increase the 
work or exercise by small additions at first, until 
you can continue it for hours without becoming 
tired. Exercise to be beneficial, should be as 
agreeable and easy as eating some healthful and 
favorite food, when you are hungry for it. It is 
under such conditions that it will be most bene¬ 
ficial. 

The same is also necessary in changing either 
amounts or kinds of foods. Begin with a short 
fast of one day or half a day and leave out the 
rich and highly spiced foods. If you have been 
drinking either tea or coffee for supper, substi¬ 
tute for it, milk or water or often eat without 
drinking. But sipping a moderate amount of 
water after eating will be beneficial. Stimulat¬ 
ing drinks, coffee, tea, or others, taken later than 
two to three p. m., will keep you from sleeping 

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soundly at night, when sound sleep is very 
necessary to rest you for the efforts you are to 
make the next day. Then if you have been 
using these drinks at each meal, you can take a 
smaller amount for breakfast and dinner for a 
week or so, when you can commence leaving out 
the drink at breakfast. You will hardly feel 
sleepy for want of it until after dinner, and by 
using one small cup only after dinner you can 
after a week or two of this, leave it entirely out 
of your system. You may long for it for a week 
or two but do not use it, and you will soon find 
you are much better off. In the same way you 
can break up the habit of using many other 
objectionable foods, among which are meats of 
all kinds. For animal foods, rely on milk, eggs, 
cheese and butter. These with whole-wheat 
bread, potatoes, stewed sweet-corn, beans and 
many other nutritious vegetables, will make 
much better body-building diets than a meat 
diet. As further along we will discuss all the 
merits of many foods, and give this matter what 
it is entitled to, we will not here go further. 

What we wish to impress on you here, is that 
you must use judgment in making changes in 
both exercise and diet. You can not safely make 
a short cut from a sedentary life to one of much 
activity at one jump. Neither can you make 


40 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

a sudden jump from heavy eating of rich meats, 
with stimulating drinks, to a perfect diet, with¬ 
out suffering much injurious effects. So make 
changes gradually, and you will suffer no in¬ 
convenience and be successful in the undertaking 
to reform. The usual method of people who 
fail in their attempts to reform, consists in the 
big jump from a full and highly stimulating diet 
to one that is entirely too meager, and after an 
effort of a day or two, they give up and resume 
the old habits. To build up a perfect body, it 
takes years of patient work. But when you 
have won out and perfected your health and 
body, and acquired the habit of living the perfect 
life, you will never desire to change. 


BATHING. 

Bathing has a powerful tonic effect on the 
whole system, and should be attended to every 
day without fail. The water should be tepid, 
and at such a temperature as is agreeable to the 
bather, and no soap or any chemical should be 
placed in the water or applied to the body in 
bathing, as all soaps and other chemicals, injure 
the nerves and oil glands, and put the skin in an 
unnatural condition, and to this extent destroy 
the good effects of the bath. The motions— 
both in applying the towel in washing the body 
as well as in wiping it—should be from the toes 
upwards towards the heart on the lower part of 
the body, and from the top of the head down in 
the direction of the heart, and from the tips of 
the fingers on the upper extremities in towards 
the body. The reason for this, is that the veins 
that carry the blood from the extremities flow 
inwards on the surface towards the heart, and 
by wiping and rubbing as before stated, you are 
aiding this flow by a mechanical action and pre¬ 
venting enlarged veins. The opposite motion— 
which many adopt—produces a depressing effect, 
and also enlarging of the veins. 

The ordinary towel is the only thing that 
should be used in the bath, as all devices for 


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scraping and cleansing the skin, other than this, 
are not good. If any part of the body needs 
scratching, the finger nails are the best thing for 
this purpose. The bath tub should be long 
enough and large enough to enable the bather to 
immerse the entire body at once, so as to get the 
best possible results. Water of the right tem¬ 
perature has a cleansing and invigorating effect 
on the entire system, and where baths are taken 
daily, the time required need not exceed one 
hour, and often a less period is required. After 
drying the body, and producing the glow by a 
rubbing as indicated, allow the air to slightly 
cool the surface before dressing, and in this way, 
get all that a cold bath could give you with no 
uncomfortable feeling. Where a bather can 
take a swim, in water of the right temperature, 
the effect is always good, as the exercise in 
moving the body about in the water further 
enhances the good effects of the bath. Except 
in a medicinal way—where one is trying to cure 
by bathing—one bath each day is as much as is 
necessary for perfect health. More than this is 
often detrimental, and once each day is too 
frequent for some persons. Each person is best 
off with what is most beneficial to him, or her, 
in this respect. 


BREATHING. 

Animals breathe to get oxygen, and plants 
breathe to get what animals give off—carbonic 
acid gas—and give off oxygen. Between the 
two, it is a perpetual motion, and each thus aids 
the other. So we should be happy when we 
walk through the fields, gardens and groves, to 
see the vegetation preparing oxygen for us. 
The flowers also contribute to our health and 
happiness by giving off with the oxygen many 
fine perfumes, and also delight the eyes by their 
brilliant and harmonious colors, far surpassing 
the finest paintings. This vegetation is also 
preparing the finest foods for both people and 
other animals. 

In the spring, summer and autumn—as well 
as in the winter—we should take each day, at 
least two long walks—from two to five miles 
each—to get plenty of the life-giving oxygen, as 
well as the benefit of the exercise. These walks 
are to be as rapid as is agreeable, and ought to be 
interspersed with a few foot races, in order to 
send blood rapidly to all parts of the body. This 
is the best way to get good results from exercise. 
Running brings into active exercise all the parts 
of the body, and by rushing the blood in liberal 
amounts to the lungs, vivifies us as no other 
exercise can. In these walks and races the body 
should be kept in a natural position. The deep 
breathing we get in this outdoor exercise is the 
best that there is. 


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CLOTHING. 

All clothing that comes in contact with the 
skin should be without any color and either 
cotton, linen or silk. Underwear made of fur, 
hair or wool, is not desirable. One advantage 
of pure white underwear is the effect that it has 
on the mind of the wearer. When it is clean, it 
is easily known, and if it needs washing, the 
wearer knows it. One thickness of underwear is 
all needed in warm weather, but in cold weather 
two thicknesses are often beneficial. 

Outside clothing should be usually of such 
darker colors as are suitable to each individual, 
and should be neatly fitted and of the right 
materials, and adapted to the season and uses it 
is to be applied to. Shoes should fit the feet and 
be large enough to enable the wearer to be free 
from blisters, bunions and corns. All these are 
caused by ill-fitting shoes, or shoes that are too 
small for the wearer. Clothing should not in 
any way interfere with the circulation of the 
blood, movements of the body or with breathing. 
Wear no more clothing than necessary. Wear 
light clothing in hot weather and heavier in cold 
weather. Have it fit loosely so as to not impede 
circulation of the blood, or interfere with respira¬ 
tion. 


ETERNAL LIFE BY RIGHT LIVING. 


When we eat the right amount of the right 
kind of food at the right time in the right way, 
take the right amount of the right kind of bodily 
and mental exercise at the right times in the 
right ways, sleep right, bathe right, dress right, 
think and believe right, and in so doing are 
constantly in a perfectly happy condition, 
we will constantly become better, stronger, 
younger in appearance, more beautiful, wiser 
and happier as time goes on, and in this way will 
be free from death, and can thus live and pro¬ 
gress forever. Doing all of this will enable us to 
live on this earth as long as we want to, and by 
doing this and getting all others to do the same, 
we can make this dear old mother earth the 
beautiful Garden of Eden. 


THE NEW WORLD. 

In The New World there will be neither rich 
nor poor, neither disease nor death. All will be 
in perfect health and always happy. All will 
live right and each person will always be the true 
friend of all others. A perfect system of co- 


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46 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

operation will give each individual all the bene¬ 
fits each would have if each owned the entire 
world. This is what all are aspiring to, only 
ignorantly, some think they must own all things 
in order to be happy, and can not see right, 
because they are “The blind leading the blind.” 
The people on this new earth will be the just 
men and women made perfect, called the elect. 


HIGHEST IDEAL. 

The highest ideal is to produce perfect human 
beings of both sexes, and to have them bring up 
children who will be perfect, and continue to live 
in perfect happiness forever on this good old 
earth. 


DISEASE. 

Many diseases exist because of wrong living, 
and can be cured by right living alone. Others 
require the treatment of a physician or surgeon. 

The World Government should take charge 
of the treatment of all who need a physician or 
surgeon, and then there would be only one 
system of treatment and that the best. In the 
treatment of diseases we advise the use of all 


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there is good and effective in all known methods 
of cure. For some diseases one method is best, 
and for others still other methods. Each case is 
best treated by that course under all circum¬ 
stances which is most likely to effect a permanent 
cure. Under the present conditions, we advise 
the patient to secure the services of the best 
local practitioner, and to act under his treatment 
until it becomes clearly evident that the treat¬ 
ment is not helping. Then do the next best 
thing, which is to consult the best specialist in 
his case that the patient knows of. Living the 
perfect life will cure about all diseases, except 
those requiring a surgical operation, and those 
caused by taking poisons and from accidents. 


TELEPATHY. 

Telepathy is the action of one mind on 
another at various distances by means of a 
medium other than any of the five senses— 
seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting and smelling. 
Our ability to receive these communications 
from all distances, and from total strangers, as 
well as from those we are acquainted with, is 
now an established fact. Telepathy may well 
be called our sixth sense. 


POISONS. 


Some of the poisons to be avoided are Alco¬ 
hol, Tobacco, Opium, Coffee, Tea, and the flesh 
of dead animals, usually called meat. Any of 
these—if used at all—should be taken under the 
advice of a well educated physician. About all 
articles that are not included in our list of ap¬ 
proved foods, should be kept out of the stomach. 
Poisons in addition to the above named are 
vinegar, salt, pepper and spices of all kinds. A 
well person needs nothing in the way of medi¬ 
cines. Therefore all such should not eat any 
article not mentioned in our approved list which 
will give you sufficient variety to select from. 


FOODS. 

The best foods for mankind are the cereal 
grains, nuts, eggs, milk, fruits, vegetables, honey, 
butter, cheese, cream, sugar and syrups. 

No food should be eaten until the previous 
food taken has been digested, and the stomach 
has rested for from one to three hours. By 
delaying breakfast till you are really hungry— 
and if there is any doubt about being hungry— 
omitting it entirely, you can after a while get 

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your system in a condition to perfectly digest 
your food. It is a good plan some times to fast 
for a day or two in order to allow your system to 
get in good shape for digesting your food. A 
person in ordinary health and flesh can usually 
at the end of one full day—of twenty-four hours 
—by abstinence from all food, and by taking 
the usual amount of exercise, establish a condi¬ 
tion of hunger that will be the means of perfect 
digestion. This will depend on how his system 
is overloaded with unnecessary substances. The 
longest fast the writer has undergone to put his 
system in good shape has been two full days— 
forty-eight hours. During this time, he taught 
a school of over sixty pupils in a satisfactory 
manner. Since then he finds twenty-four hours 
always sufficient. In these fasts you are to 
drink nothing but pure fresh water, and continue 
with your usual exercise or work. The mind 
has so much to do with it, that these fasts are 
easy if you firmly make up your mind to take 
them. All such fasts have a very good effect on 
the health for a considerable time, and ought to 
be more frequently taken by everyone who is not 
feeling just right. Quite frequently very fleshy 
people have been benefited by fasts of much 
longer duration, some it has been reported as 
long as ninety days. 


BEST FOODS. 

Best foods are those that give best results. 
After a person has attained his full growth, he 
only needs foods to replace the wear that is 
occasioned by work and unless his activity is 
very great, he must reduce the amount of food 
that he was used to using during his period of 
growth and general development. In a per¬ 
fectly healthy person, all food taken should be 
completely and perfectly digested. If it is not, 
trouble is sure to follow, in the accumulation of 
undigested food in the stomach and intestines. 
Again if more food is digested than the body 
requires for its proper nourishment, the surplus 
blood must get rid of its excess of nutriment by 
storing it in the form of fat, or by an unhealthful 
storage in the soft parts of the body as the 
intestines, skin, brain or connective tissues. 
If stored in the lower part of the intestines, we 
have piles. If stored in the skin, we have skin 
disease. If stored in the brain we have brain 
diseases. If stored in the connective tissues, 
we have dropsy. Besides these ways of causing 
disease, there are other ways in which the sur¬ 
plus of blood can injure us. No stored—stag¬ 
nant—blood can remain pure. The natural 
circulation of the blood is necessary to keep it 


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51 


pure. All stored blood either circulates very 
slowly or not at all. 

For the above reasons we should never eat 
more food than is necessary to supply the 
wastes caused by exercise and work. Every 
mouthful above this is an injury. We are al¬ 
ways better off with rather less food than we 
need instead of too much. Many of the diseases 
above mentioned are quickly cured by a fast. 

The following foods are all good but you 
must select those that you think will nourish 
you best. Without eating flesh meats, we have 
five kinds of animal foods. 

EGGS. 

Eggs contain all the elements of the body 
in the right proportion and are a perfect food. 
They are all nourishment if eaten raw. If 
cooked only a part of their nourishment is se¬ 
cured. They are best taken raw with whole¬ 
wheat bread. Always have them strictly fresh 
and break them into a glass as if they were soft- 
boiled. They taste better raw than soft-boiled. 
Soft-boiling is the least objectionable way of 
cooking them but it seems to destroy the fine 
flavor. This fine flavor is quite likely the vita- 
mines. When you loose this you loose the most 
valuable part of them. Anyone can easily learn 
to eat them raw by just thinking they are soft- 


52 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

boiled. All persons who can arrange to keep 
a few hens, should do so in order to have strictly 
fresh eggs. No family should be without a 
dozen or two of hens and they should be kept 
right. Any standard work on poultry will give 
you all such information. 

MILK. 

In order to have the best milk possible, you 
should have either a cow, or goats. If you are 
able to keep a good cow, you should by all means 
do so in order to have freshly drawn milk with 
all the perfect food elements that you can only 
have in it in this way. Milk looses about all of 
its vitamines by cooling and gradually changes 
the other perfect cells as it ages. The cow 
should be milked just as breakfast is ready. The 
same can be said for supper. But for dinner 
you can use some of the morning milk. In 
feeding babies, the milk is to be drawn fresh each 
time. For this frequent feeding, goat’s milk 
is the best, and a goat can easily be kept in the 
yard where it can be milked at any time. 

The milk you buy is just a very little better 
than no milk. As the ordinances of most all 
cities require the milk to be pasteurized— 
heated—it has no vitamines in it and all cells 
are so changed that little of the real value re¬ 
mains. Besides many dairymen put chemical 


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53 


preservatives into it to keep it from souring and 
these chemicals are injurious poisons, because 
if they were not poisons they would not be 
germicides. For this reason have your own 
goats or cow. 

CHEESE. 

Cheese is the richest of all foods, as it is the 
nutritious part of the milk condensed into a 
solid form. Like pasteurized—heated—milk, it 
contains all the bodily elements in the right 
proportions except the vitamines. Full cream 
cheese will give you plenty of protein—muscle 
forming substance—and fat—heat and force 
producing substance—and mineral substances 
for nourishing the bones and most all parts of 
the body. If cheese is used, you should use 
raw vegetables and raw fruits with it to furnish 
vitamines. Such as lettuce, cabbage, celery, 
cranberries, apples, pears, grapes and other 
vegetables and fruits. Be sure to use the vege¬ 
tables and fruits raw, as cooking them destroys 
the vitamines. By grinding whole wheat and 
using it within a few days you can secure vita¬ 
mines. To get the vitamines in the wheat you 
must eat it raw and the sooner after it is ground 
the more certain you are to get all the vita¬ 
mines. 

CREAM. 

Cream contains the fat vitamines but no 


64 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

others and is valuable for its heat and force 
producing substance. It also contains a small 
amount of muscle forming substance—protein— 
and a small amount of other substances. It is 
good as a seasoning for many kinds of other 
foods. It can be used on bread as a substitute 
for butter and is even to be preferred, as it con¬ 
tains all the elements found in butter and some 
that butter does not contain. It should be 
strictly fresh. Rancid—stale or mouldy—cream 
must not be used as the decay of the protein it 
contains will form the deadly ptomain poison . 
This is the reason why stale ice-cream poisons 
people occasionally. So beware of this ptomain 
poison when you buy cream. All canned milk 
and cream—usually called evaporated milk and 
cream—must be avoided if you value your 
health. No condensing can make milk or 
cream keep in a healthful condition. The writer 
has repeatedly sampled these milk and cream 
products and has always found them very 
disgusting. And above all, do not try to raise 
babies on condensed milk and commercially 
prepared foods. The food for young babies is 
first its mothers milk with its live cells and all of 
the life giving vitamines. If you are not able 
to furnish this, the next best food is the milk of 
some perfectly healthy woman that is nursing 


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her own child. We advise this feeding for a few 
months until the new born child can get along 
on goat's or cow's milk. Next in order for 
children is the freshly drawn milk of the goat 
or cow. As under the subject, “Care of Child¬ 
ren," we have fully explained about this we will 
say no more about it here but refer the reader 
to that subject. 


BUTTER. 

Butter should be strictly fresh and free from 
all coloring matter and preservatives. As butter 
usually contains more or less protein—the lean 
meat producing substance—it is liable to have 
ptomain poison in it if it becomes old. There¬ 
fore it should be strictly fresh. Salt being a 
poison—as all preservatives are—should not be 
put into butter. The butter should be preserved 
by a temperature at about the freezing point 
and should not be held longer than from two to 
three months in this temperature as a deteriora¬ 
tion is all the time going on even at low tempera¬ 
tures. It is a common saying that the use of 
much butter causes skin troubles. It is not the 
fresh butter fat that does this but the salt and 
other preservatives that are put into it. To 
be safe, have your own cow and make your 
own butter every few days and have it free from 
salt and other chemicals. 


56 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 
WHOLE WHEAT. 

New whole wheat is the perfect food for 
people after they have passed their childhood 
period. By grinding it fresh each day as used 
and eating it raw, you get all the substances 
necessary to form a perfect body and keep it in 
perfect health. If you have no hand-mill for 
grinding it, by moistening it an hour before 
eating, you can easily chew the grains so as to 
get all of the nourishment in it. But to get all 
of the elements you must use it, germ, bran and 
all parts of it. If you make bread of it you 
lofise all of the life-giving vitamines. By eating 
about one-half of it raw at each meal and the 
other half in the form of whole-wheat bread, you 
will get one-half of the vitamines and perfect cells 
as nature has prepared them for you and some 
of its protein and other elements in the baked 
bread. But as you have been in the habit— 
for a long time—of eating most of your food in a 
cooked form, you cannot very safely make the 
entire change at once. But in order to have a 
high class bread, grind your own whole-wheat 
flour each time you bake and have all of the 
wheat in your bread. 

White wheat bread, made from the highly 
advertised white flours, is of little value as a 
food. It has a tendency to constipate and con- 


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57 


tains very little protein—muscle forming sub¬ 
stance. As the protein and mineral salts lie 
close to the germ and bran, you do not have 
these in the white flour. But when you grind 
your own flour fresh each time you bake you 
have all these in your bread. Mills take out 
the germ in the whole-wheat flour that they 
furnish, because the germ would require the 
flour to be used within a few days after grinding, 
and for this reason you cannot buy such whole¬ 
wheat flour as you ought to have to give you 
the right kind of whole-wheat bread. All flours 
now made by the milling trust are made to sell 
and speculate on. This trust does not care 
about the welfare of the people. They are in the 
business to make money. So buy a hand-mill 
and grind your own flour each time you bake. 
Remember that with your hand-mill you can 
grind your oats, and make fresh oatmeal, rye 
and have fresh rye flour, barley and have fresh 
barley flour, corn and have fresh cornmeal. 
You can, with a fine sieve, sift out the oat hulls, 
corn hulls and barley hulls and have all these in 
nice shape for use. By all means get the mill. 

OATS. 

Oats is a richer food, so far as protein and 
fat are concerned, and contains about as much 
of the other food elements as wheat. Strictly 


58 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

fresh oatmeal is a richer food than freshly 
ground whole-wheat as it contains one-fourth 
more protein and almost four times as much 
heat and force producing substances. The 
oatmeal of commerce is usually so old that it 
has greatly deteriorated, and probably has lost 
all of its vitamines and a considerable part of 
its other substances. In order to have it in the 
best possible condition, buy a hand-mill and 
grind your own oatmeal as you need it, and 
have it fresh. It can be eaten raw and is a fine 
thing to mix with your whole-wheat flour. The 
two put together in a dish and thoroughly 
mixed, make a very fine combination to eat raw. 
Like wheat, it contains all of the vitamines and 
when eaten raw, gives you as rich a food as you 
need. It will grow you more muscle and pro¬ 
duce about four times the amount of heat and 
strength when compared with wheat as a food. 
In Scotland they say they produce fine horses 
and fine men on oats. They surely can do this, 
as it is the best of all grains so far as its nutritive 
qualities are concerned. 

PEANUTS. 

Peanuts contain the largest amount of 
nutriment of any substance used as food. They 
contain one-fourth more protein and four times 
the amount of fat found in oats. As they are 


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rich in all the bodily elements, they are a good 
substitute for all kinds of animal foods. They 
are a good food raw or roasted. In using them, 
great care must be taken that you do not overeat. 
They should be strictly fresh. 

ALMONDS. 

Almonds contain about half the amount of 
protein and a little more fat than peanuts. 
They are a good substitute for animal foods. 
Their fine flavor makes them a favorite. 

RICE. 

Rice is a fairly good food if used with fat- 
yielding foods, but is not a food that one could 
live on alone for any great length of time and 
keep in good health, as it is almost entirely 
deficient in the heat and strength producing 
elements. 

POTATOES. 

Potatoes, both sweet and white, have only 
a very small food value and must be used with 
the other articles of foods. Both should be 
prepared only by roasting in the skins as this 
makes them easily digested and preserves all 
of their elements. Used in this way, they are 
highly beneficial along with the other foods. 

CORN, BARLEY, BUCKWHEAT, KAFFIR-CORN AND RYE. 

Corn, Barley, Buckwheat, Kaffir-corn and 
Rye are good substitutes for Oats and Wheat. 


60 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

These cereals are, however, not as desirable, as 
they contain less protein, excepting rye, which 
contains the same amount of protein as wheat 
according to one analysis and less than wheat 
according to another analysis. 

GREEN CORN. 

Green corn, either sweet-corn or field-corn, 
cut from the cob in thin slices and cooked with as 
small an amount of water as possible, seasoned 
with butter and cream, is a very palatable and 
nutritious food. 

After cutting the corn as close to the cob as 
possible, the cob should be scraped with the 
knife so as to secure the part remaining, as this 
is the best and most nutritious part. Cook for 
only about five minutes and have vessel covered 
so as to condense the steam as this steam con¬ 
tains valuable food substances. 

STRING BEANS. 

Beans in the pods, when the bean is about 
half grown, cut in pieces about a half-inch in 
length and boiled under cover in a small amount 
of water for a half hour, retaining water they are 
cooked in, and seasoned with butter or cream, 
makes a very palatable food. 

ASPARAGUS AND GREEN PEAS. 

Asparagus and Green Peas make a fine food 
when prepared as follows: Cut asparagus in 


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pieces about one-fourth of an inch in length, and 
hull peas and either cook separately, or mixed 
together, in a small amount of water under cover 
for about twenty minutes, and season with 
butter or fresh cream. Don't pour off water 
they are cooked in, as it contains most of the 
food values. 

COOKING VEGETABLES. 

In cooking all vegetables, cook in a closed 
vessel that will condense as near all of the steam 
as possible, and never pour off any of the water, 
as it contains a large amount of the most val¬ 
uable part of the things cooked. Roast all 
vegetables that can be prepared in this way, as 
you are sure to have the best result from this. 
A part of the vitamines are quite likely retained 
in some of the articles prepared by roasting. 

VEGETABLES TO BE USED RAW. 

Carrots, Cabbage, Celery, Lettuce, Green 
Onions, Radishes, Turnips, Parsley and a few 
other vegetables should be eaten raw. By 
using them raw, you get the perfect cells and all 
of the vitamines. 

VEGETABLES TO BE COOKED. 

Asparagus, Beets, Old Onions, Green Corn, 
Beans, Peas, Rutabagas, Parsnips, Vegetable 
Oysters and some others. 


62 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 
HAVE ALL VEGETABLES FRESH. 

Be sure and have all the vegetables you use, 
either raw or cooked, fresh, as they are not 
healthful if partly decayed. As far as prac¬ 
ticable, grow them yourself, and use them as 
much as possible while strictly fresh. 

FRUITS. 

Among the best fruits are, Apples, Cran¬ 
berries, Dates, Figs, Grapes, Lemons, Oranges, 
Pineapples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Raspberries, 
Strawberries, Bananas, Blackberries, Cherries, 
Tomatoes and Gooseberries. As all of these 
fruits have the vitamines which would be lost 
by cooking, they should all be used raw. Even 
drying them causes the loss of the vitamines. 

NUTS. 

Eatable nuts are very rich in all kinds of 
nutriment and all should be eaten raw. Roast¬ 
ing any of them destroys both fine flavors and 
vitamines. 

The principal eatable nuts are: Almonds, 
Brazil-nuts, Butternuts, Chestnuts, Cocoanuts, 
Filberts, Hickory-nuts, Peanuts, Pecans, Wal¬ 
nuts, Hazelnuts, Beechnuts and some others. 
As they are the richest known foods, care must 
be exercised that we do not eat too much. Half 
a dozen large English walnuts are enough to eat 
at one time. Two ounces of nut kernels at one 


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time is a big feed. They should be thoroughly 
masticated and used with other foods, not so 
rich, at meals. 

CAUTION IN EATING. 

After selecting the best possible combinations 
of foods for a meal, be sure you are really hungry 
before you begin eating. If not genuinely 
hungry, your best foods will not give satisfactory 
results. Then, if hungry, eat very slowly and 
thoroughly chew and insalivate everything you 
eat. Doing this is easy in eating dry foods. 
But if you have moist and mushy foods, be sure 
and chew them just as long as you do the dry 
foods. If you eat soup, use a small teaspoon, 
and work each spoonfull about in your mouth 
before swallowing it, as it must be insalivated in 
order to be in good shape for being digested. 

Most all grown-up people eat too much, and 
to avoid this, many are now doing without 
breakfast. But where people are taking a lot 
of exercise, if one is really hungry in the morn¬ 
ing, it is just as well to eat a light breakfast. 
But never eat unless really hungry. If you 
have taken breakfast and are not hungry at 
noon, do not eat dinner but pass it by, and you 
will then quite likely be hungry for supper. 
But on account of health, if not hungry at 


64 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

supper, also pass it by. Many persons always 
eat at meal time whether they are hungry or 
not. But this is a very bad thing to do and is 
the cause of much sickness. 

You should confine your diet to a few har¬ 
monious articles of food. If you have the 
best foods, you will have the very plainest and 
commonest. If you will eat very slowly and 
thoroughly chew every mouthful of this food, 
ordinarily you will have no appetite for more 
when you have taken enough. But if you still 
eat too much, measure your food and eat no 
more than you have estimated, which should 
not exceed one pint of solid food and not above 
same amount of liquid foods taken at the same 
meal. If you find this is too much, then reduce 
the amount below this until by experiment you 
can get about the right amount. Remember 
it is always safer, and you will always feel better 
on account of having eaten less, rather than more 
than you need. A very slight variation either 
way is not, with a person in good health, a 
serious matter. 

Of course avoid all drinks except milk, pure 
water and unfermented pure fruit juices of those 
fruits that are capable of yielding palatable 
juices. No preserved fruit juices are healthful, 
as the very fact that they can be kept, is evidence 


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65 


that they have been in some way changed from 
their natural condition. It is therefore necessary 
to make your own fruit juices if you want them 
healthful. 


HEALTHFUL COMBINATIONS OF FOOD. 

The less complex the combinations of food are 
the better. Any food that contains all the ele¬ 
ments of the body and yet is a simple, plain, 
natural substance, taken alone, is the most 
effectively digested. Milk is the best example 
and this can be taken alone. While eggs contain 
all of the elements of the body they are in too 
concentrated a form to be effectively digested 
and it is therefore better to eat them in combina¬ 
tion with bread, or other harmonizing foods, as 
cooked vegetables, potatoes, beans, asparagus 
and grains as whole wheat flour. The menus we 
give are to illustrate the combinations of foods 
that can safely be taken at one meal. Unrefined 
sugars—brown sugars—should be used instead 
of refined. Maple sugar and syrup, both made 
from the sap of the maple tree, are excellent as 
well as honey. Some vegetables are best in 
their raw or uncooked state, as cabbage, carrots, 
celery, lettuce, radishes, onions, parsley and 
turnips. Beets, beans, parsnips, potatoes, as- 


66 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

paragus and many other kinds of vegetables, are 
only eatable when properly cooked. Most all 
fruits are most healthful when eaten raw. Per¬ 
fectly ripe tomatoes are best eaten raw, but can 
only be preserved by canning, which requires 
partial cooking. Raw tomatoes and carrots 
both contain all three classes of vitamines in 
their uncooked state, and therefore as largely as 
possible should be eaten raw. Canned vege¬ 
tables and fruits retain a part of their vitamines 
if not kept too long before using, and should be 
used within one year after being canned. All 
canned goods should be kept in storage at low 
temperatures but should not be frozen. A 
temperature of from 35 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit 
is the best in which to preserve canned goods, 
and the storage rooms should be kept free from 
moisture. 


BEST MENUS. 

We here give our best menus in the order of 
their value as to health producing results as we 
have used them. 

MENU NO. 1. 

Pure fresh milk—the newer and fresher the 
better—to be sipped slowly and the taking to be 
completed at least ten minutes before any other 
food or drink is taken. 


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67 


Whole-wheat bread—or gems—made from 
fresh ground new whole-wheat flour—with fresh 
sweet cream, and fresh raw eggs to be slowly and 
thoroughly chewed and the three substances 
mixed together as they are eaten. Not over one- 
fourth pint of pure water to be taken at the con¬ 
clusion of this meal. 

MENU NO. 2 . 

Hot baked potatoes, white or sweet, skin to 
be washed and scraped clean before baking, to be 
covered with raw fresh eggs and a small amount 
of fresh cream, outside of potatoes to be eaten as 
well as other part, to be chewed very slowly and 
thoroughly into a liquid condition. 

Stewed Lima beans seasoned with fresh 
cream, to be eaten slowly. 

Toasted whole-wheat bread, spread with 
fresh cream and honey, to be eaten slowly. 
Chew into a liquid. One-fourth pint of water 
sipped at close of meal. 

MENU NO. 3. 

Soup made from finely chopped white pota¬ 
toes, celery and onions, boiled soft—water re¬ 
tained on them that they are boiled in—seasoned 
with plenty of fresh cream and milk, mixed with 
raw eggs, to be eaten very slowly. 

Fresh green—or wax—beans cooked in pods, 


68 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

seasoned with fresh cream, milk and whole¬ 
wheat flour. 

Whole-wheat flour gems—or bread—fresh 
butter and sugared maple syrup. 

MENU NO. 4. 

Clean new whole wheat, ground in hand mill 
—or other device for grinding—to be eaten dry 
and after each mouthful has been chewed to a 
liquid and swallowed, a sip of sweet milk is to be 
taken, so as to thoroughly insalivate both ground 
wheat and milk. 

Toasted whole-wheat bread and cream— 
genuine butter can be substituted for cream— 
with celery, cut cross the fibres in slices not above 
one-fourth of an inch in thickness. If you do 
not have celery, substitute cabbage cut up in fine 
pieces, all of this to be chewed into a liquid before 
swallowing. Use the celery, cabbage or lettuce 
raw and without any dressing of any kind. At 
end of meal sip small glass of pure water. 

MENU NO. 5. 

Raw rolled oats—oat-meal—mix with it raw 
whole-wheat flour, freshly ground from whole¬ 
wheat having the germ in it, and maple sugar or 
fresh comb honey. Chew to a liquid before 
swallowing. 

Whole-wheat bread and dairy—or creamery 
—butter and small pieces of full cream cheese. 


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69 


Lettuce—or green fresh onions—both to be 
eaten raw and to be cut in small pieces cross the 
fibres. 

Fresh milk to be taken in small quantities at 
intervals while eating. All foods to be chewed to 
a liquid before swallowing. When you take milk, 
take a sip and hold in the mouth till saturated 
with saliva before swallowing. One-half of the 
process of digestion is performed in the mouth 
when food is properly masticated and insalivated. 

MENU NO. 6. 

Sweet-corn, cut from cob and cooked for ten 
to fifteen minutes in as small amount of water as 
possible—do not pour off water as that has in it 
most of nutriment—season with milk and cream. 
This corn must be well chewed to get a perfect 
digestion of it. Whole-wheat bread and genuine 
fresh butter. Fresh milk. Raw celery, cab¬ 
bage, onions, or lettuce. All to be well chewed. 

MENU NO. 7. 

String beans—fresh from vines—cut or brok¬ 
en in small pieces, boiled for about one-half hour 
with water necessary for cooking them—no 
water to be poured off as it contains the bulk of 
the nutriment—seasoned with cream and whole¬ 
wheat flour. Whole-wheat bread and good 
dairy—or creamery butter. 


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Figs, dates, raisins or peaches. Cabbage, 
celery or lettuce. Chew all of this food to a 
liquid before swallowing. Use not above one 
glass of water with this meal. 

MENU NO. 8. 

Asparagus, cut cross fibre in slices not above 
one-fourth of an inch thru, cook about twenty 
minutes, season with dairy butter and cream in 
water it is boiled in. 

Lima beans—cooked for one-half hour slowly 
—letting water boil down before seasoning with 
cream and butter. 

Raw lettuce, onions, celery or cabbage, cut 
finely and dressed with lemon juice and maple 
sugar. 

Whole-wheat bread with good fresh butter. 
One glass pure fresh water. 

MENU NO. 9. 

Green peas—cook from fifteen to twenty 
minutes—do not pour off water as it contains 
most of the nutriment—season with cream and 
good butter. 

Beets—cook about one hour and serve with¬ 
out seasoning. About two inches of beet stems 
should be left on beets and water they are cooked 
in allowed to evaporate before removing them 
from kettle. 


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71 


Fresh strawberries, raspberries, or other 
fruits to be eaten raw. 

Whole-wheat bread with good butter and 
cream cheese. One glass of water. 

MENU NO. 10 

Navy beans, cooked from four to five hours, 
evaporating all water when soft, seasoned with 
butter. 

Sweet-potatoes, long narrow—or larger ones 
cut in long pieces about one inch in thickness— 
baked about one hour, or till soft. Good 
butter. 

Whole-wheat bread. Raw celery, cabbage or 
fresh fruits. Peanuts, or other nuts. Pure 
water. If no fruits are eaten, milk can be used 
with this meal. 


FRUIT MEALS. 

In making a meal on fruit it is always best 
to use at each meal only a single kind. Let 
it either be apples, peaches, pears, grapes, 
plums, tomatoes, oranges, water-melons, musk- 
melons and so on. Mixing different kinds is not 
so good. Digestion is more perfect when only 
one kind is used. You can make a meal on figs, 
dates, dried peaches and so on. After about 


72 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

three hours have elapsed you can then, if hungry, 
eat one of the other meals. Do not use milk 
and fruit—or fruit juices—at the same meal. 
This will be an inharmonious combination and 
will usually disorder your stomach. So avoid it. 
When milk is not used at an ordinary meal, and 
no food containing any considerable amount of 
milk, a small amount of sweetish fruit may be 
eaten at the close, but it is a better practice to 
wait three to four hours before eating such fruit, 
after an ordinary meal and make the next meal 
an exclusive fruit meal. 

All fruits containing acids—and about all do 
—should be eaten as a fruit meal, and never 
when the regular meal is eaten. When thus 
eaten, they furnish considerable nourishment 
and produce a cleansing effect. After a meal of 
fruit, no other food should be taken until this 
fruit has been digested, which in a person in 
vigorous health will be about two to three hours. 
Fruit as well as raw vegetables should be very 
slowly eaten and masticated thoroughly. Nuts 
can be eaten with both vegetables and fruits. 


HOW TO COOK. 

In cooking vegetables—or anything else— 
the water they are boiled in should be left with 
them and evaporated where the vegetables are 
to be served in a dry condition. In boiling much 
of the most valuable food substances are ex¬ 
tracted and are in the water and all this is lost 
if the water is drained off. The same can also 
be said of fruits in cooking them. For this 
reason baked fruits are always more agreeable to 
the taste than stewed fruits. In most all 
vegetables and fruits, the most nutritious part 
is next to the skin and for this reason in preparing 
for cooking or roasting, wash clean and remove 
the rough and hard substances and spray 
poisons, leaving all of the substances of the skin 
not too rough. The best way of preparing 
potatoes—both white and sweet—is to wash 
clean without peeling and then roast them till 
done—soft—in an oven. Prepared in this way 
they retain all their nutritious substances and 
are most palatable. Corn should be cut from 
the ears in thin slices so that all grains are at 
least cut once through the middle and the eye— 
or germ part—should be scraped out from the 
cob as this is always the most nutritious part 
of the grain. Beans in the pods should be broken 

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74 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

or cut in small pieces so that they can be easily 
and quickly cooked. Asparagus is to be cut 
across grain in lengths not above one-fourth of an 
inch. Boiling destroys about all of the vita- 
mines in foods but baking leaves a part of the 
vitamines in the food if it can be eaten before it 
cools more than is necessary for eating. So bake 
or roast all foods that can be prepared in this 
way. In boiling, use no more water than is 
necessary to keep food from being burnt and 
keep vessel in which cooking is done well covered 
so as to condense and turn back—as near as 
possible—all steam into the cooking food. 


VITAMINES AND LIVE CELLS. 

Vitamines are volatile substances, found in 
fresh drawn milk before the animal heat of the 
cow, goat—or other animal—from which it is 
taken is lost, raw fresh eggs, the germs and 
coverings of the cereal grains, most all vegetables 
that grow above ground, as cabbage, lettuce, 
green onions, celery, about all fresh fruits as 
apples, peaches, pears, tomatoes, grapes, rasp¬ 
berries and in less amount in most all vegetables 
grown in the ground as onions, beets, parsnips, 
carrots, potatoes and the like. We have not 
named all the articles containing these vitamines 


VITAMINES AND LIVE CELLS 


75 


but think we have named the most important. 
Oranges and other tropical fruits also contain 
them—which includes the lemon. 

To get the full benefit of these vitamines as 
well as of the perfect live cells as Nature—God— 
has prepared them for building perfect and 
healthful tissues and bodies, these foods must be 
eaten fresh and uncooked as cooking destroys 
both the vitamines and the perfect cells. So 
eat raw fresh vegetables and raw ripe fruits as 
much as possible. Even drying the vegetables 
or fruits as well as cooking them, destroys about 
all of the vitamines. To be sure you get plenty 
of these cells and vitamines, eat all of your foods 
raw that you can and only cook such articles as 
you cannot very well eat raw. Heat applied 
in baking and roasting, leaves much more of the 
vitamines than boiling. Boiling destroys about 
all and should only be employed in cases as of 
dried beans when the cooking cannot be done in 
any other way. 

Have your own cow—or goats—and use the 
milk while warm and you will get the perfect 
live cells and vitamines in this way. Eat your 
eggs raw and get the perfect cells and vitamines 
in them. Grind your wheat in your own hand 
mill and eat this whole-wheat flour raw while it 
is fresh and contains the perfectly live cells and 


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A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 


vitamines. Eat your rolled oats—oat-meal— 
raw and to make it more agreeable add some 
of the fresh ground whole-wheat to it and some 
honey or sugar. 


FRUITS SHOULD BE RIPE. 

All fruits should be fully ripe before being 
taken from their trees, bushes or vines as all 
contain more or less unhealthful ingredients in 
them before this condition exists. Fruit that is 
picked green, and allowed to ripen afterwards, is 
unhealthful and laws should be enacted to pre¬ 
vent the sale of such fruit. If we had complete 
government ownership of transportation and 
food distribution, this could be avoided. As it 
is, speculators buy immature fruit and keep it 
for weeks in some instances, and then put it on 
sale when it is full of poison and entirely unfit 
for food. If transportation could be made 
within twenty-four hours from picking, to con¬ 
sumer, all of the most perishable fruits could be 
delivered in a perfectly fresh and wholesome 
condition. Many persons who now buy this 
poisonous fruit, do not know what the real ripe 
and perfect fruit tastes like. The perfectly ripe 


HEALTH SUGGESTIONS 


77 


fruit is so delicious that it literally melts in the 
mouth, has a richness and sweetness that can 
only be recalled by those who have gathered 
these fruits when fully and perfectly ripe. As 
an illustration, strawberries and cherries, which, 
as sold in the markets, are both sour and bitter, 
when perfectly ripe, have a rich sweet taste, 
uncooked, and in their natural condition. Spray 
poisons should be washed off of all fruits, as 
now sold, before using them. 


HEALTH SUGGESTIONS. 

The stomach secretes a special gastric juice— 
digestive fluid—for each kind of food, as one for 
milk and cereals, one for acid fruits and others 
for other foods. Hence the importance of 
simplicity in menus. The best and most de¬ 
sirable digestion is secured by using only those 
foods at any meal that require the same kind of 
solvents—digestive fluids. 

Instead of refined sugar, use unrefined— 
brown sugar—or honey, maple sugar, maple 
syrup, sweet fruits, as muscatel raisins, dates, 
figs and other sweet fruits. Nature always 
makes the best foods, and man, for commercial 


78 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

purposes, changes them and makes them un¬ 
healthful. 

Common salt—Chloride of Sodium—is prop¬ 
erly prepared in all fruits, grains, vegetables, 
milk, butter, cheese and eggs for nourishing the 
body and should not be put on any of our articles 
of diet, as in its mineral state it is a poison, and 
will aid in producing disease. Also avoid using 
pepper, or other spices, as all are poisons and 
create inflammations of various kinds in the body. 
Do not use vinegar as it is also a poison, but for 
dressing, use lemon juice. 

Slight changes in diet at intervals are found 
to be beneficial. We have provided for this in 
our menus. But other articles from our approved 
list of foods can be substituted in some cases, 
and added to some of them in other instances, 
provided acid fruits and milk do not be made to 
occur in the changed menus. Our menus always 
provide for all the elements necessary for a 
perfect diet. 

All foods—as far as practicable—are to be 
eaten raw, as this kind of diet contains the live 
cells and vitamines which are necessary to form 
a perfect body, and maintain it in the best 
possible state of health. A large part of all our 
foods should be eaten raw for this reason, and 


AMOUNT OF FOOD—TIME TO EAT 


79 


because cooking in many cases makes them more 
difficult to digest. 

No more water should be used in cooking 
than can be served with the food, as most of the 
nutritive substances are always to be found in the 
waters the foods are cooked in. 


AMOUNT OF FOOD. 

Amount of food and drink taken at one meal 
should not exceed one quart in all, and for 
persons who take a very small amount of exer¬ 
cise, a much less amount should be taken. 


TIME TO EAT. 

The time to eat is when you have a natural 
appetite for plain nutritious and healthful food. 
If not hungry at meal time, do not eat, but fast 
till the next meal, and if still not hungry, con¬ 
tinue the fast till you have the appetite that you 
know is necessary to enable you to relish and 
enjoy the plain and healthful foods which you 
are to use. All persons who are actively en¬ 
gaged in vigorous physical work for from eight 
to ten hours each day, should usually eat three 


80 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

times each day. Those who do not take so much 
exercise often can keep in health better by eating 
only two meals each day. As children do not 
eat much at one time, they may, besides the 
three meals, be benefited by an additional light 
lunch. A few sedentary persons find one meal 
a day sufficient. 


WAY TO EAT. 

The right way to eat is to sip slowly all 
drinks, and chew all solid foods to a liquid before 
swallowing them. About one hour should be 
taken for each of the regular meals. By eating 
slowly, you are less liable to eat too much, and 
are sure to eat enough. 


COFFEE, TEA AND OTHER DRINKS. 

Coffee, tea, chocolate, cocoa and other 
drinks must not be used during the meal, as the 
solvent of the foods taken must be the saliva in 
order that perfect digestion may be secured. 
All foods, as far as possible, should be so dry 
that they can be thoroughly mixed with saliva 
during mastication, and therefore, when you use 


COFFEE, TEA AND OTHER DRINKS 81 

milk at a meal, take a sip occasionally as you 
proceed with the chewing and insalivating of the 
dry foods, as whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, whole 
or ground wheat, corn-bread, rye-bread, or other 
dry breads or bran-bread. All foods should be 
thoroughly chewed, even the mushy foods as 
custards and all pies. For this reason no drinks 
should be taken with meals—except milk—and 
this should be taken in small quantities after 
the other foods are chewed to a liquid con¬ 
sistency. Nothing should be swallowed that is 
not chewed till it can very easily be swallowed. 
Milk, soups and fruit juices, should be taken in 
small quantities at a time and held in the mouth 
till well mixed with saliva. Coffee contains two 
poisons—tannic acid and caffeine. Tea also 
contains two poisons—tannic acid and thein. 
Because of these poisons, both temporarily 
stimulate by requiring the increased action of 
the heart to eliminate these poisons. This 
tonic effect, like all other tonic effects, produced 
by poison medicines, is always followed by de¬ 
pression, so that the last condition is worse than 
the one before taking. This toning up tem¬ 
porarily, will eventually wear out the heart and 
eliminating organs. So we advise that you get 
your tonic from the pure foods that will not wear 
out any part of the body. 


82 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

When consuming the right amount of the 
right kind of food in the right way at the right 
time, you are always adding strength to your 
heart and other organs. Chocolate contains 
too much mineral ash and besides adding these 
undesirable elements, has other objectionable 
substances in it, else it would not be a tonic. 
Cocoa is objectionable for the same reasons 
as given for chocolate. If you need a warm 
drink and can not drink warm milk, then drink 
quite warm water. You can season it with 
cream and honey and this will not unnaturally 
stimulate you so as to be followed by reaction. 
Fruit juices should never be taken with a meal 
at which milk is taken. Fruit juice can be taken 
with any of the other foods, if no milk is taken, 
and as a substitute for milk. If you use soup 
containing a considerable amount of milk, leave 
out the fruit juices during such meal. All fruit 
juices and fruits should be omitted from meals 
containing milk or any foods containing large 
amounts of milk, as these combinations will not 
harmonize. Milk and fruits and fruit juices will 
form gases in the stomach and bloat you, and 
this combination is very bad for digestion. So 
to recapitulate, use no drinks except pure water, 
taken cold—not colder than 50 degrees Fahren¬ 
heit—or warm—not above 105 degrees Fahren- 


HEAT THE FOOD OF THE GODS 


83 


heit—and this can be taken with any kind of 
food. Milk can be drank if no acids, fruits or 
fruit juices are taken. Fruit juices can be taken 
if no milk or foods containing large amounts of 
milk are used at the meal. Of course hard cider 
or other fermented fruit juices should not be 
taken. Nothing containing alcohol is to be 
taken at any time. Remember all stimulants 
are poisons, and it is the effort of the heart to 
eliminate the poisons that stimulates. All such 
extra heart action is followed by depression. 


WHEAT, THE FOOD OF THE GODS. 

Wheat, in ancient times, called ambrosia, 
was the food of the gods, according to ancient 
wisdom history. It is claimed in this history that 
it was carried by them to this earth from the 
planets they migrated from when they came here 
to stock the earth with human beings. Wheat is 
about the only food known to contain all the 
necessary elements of the human body in about 
the right proportions. A legend says that the 
strongest man in all India, used no other food, 
but used daily only one hand-full of wheat which 
he ate in its raw and unground condition. The 
author of this book has ground whole wheat, as 
it comes from the farm, germ, bran and all parts, 


84 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

and lived largely upon it for considerable periods 
with the best known results. There is no ques¬ 
tion about it being the best possible known food, 
when ground freshly each day—as it should be— 
and eaten raw. In this way you get the live 
cells and vitamines as Nature—God—has pre¬ 
pared them for building a perfect body. 


FLESH MEATS. 

All flesh meats are largely poisons and dan¬ 
gerous substances for use as foods. This term 
comprehends all forms of meats, fish, oysters, 
lobsters and in short all animal foods except 
eggs, milk, butter and cheese. Whenever we eat 
meats, we make cannibals of ourselves and put 
ourselves in the class with hyenas, buzzards and 
that class of animals. Meat eaters are short 
lived and subject to many kinds of blood dis¬ 
eases, such as rheumatism, gout, scrofula, cancer 
and numerous other diseases. It is not a natural 
food and all children have to be taught to eat it. 


TOBACCOISM. 

Tobacco is a habit forming drug that pro¬ 
duces tobaccoism. The continued use of tobac- 


TOBACCOISM—ALCHOLISM 


85 


co produces a weakening of the heart that is, in 
many cases, difficult to cure and in many cases is 
never cured. For this reason all forms of tobacco 
should be avoided. If the tobacco trust would 
post up signs with their advertising signs, ex¬ 
plaining how dangerous it is to use the deadly 
poison, we are sure it would be a benefit to the 
numerous unsuspecting victims. When other 
poisons are sold, labels are usually attached to 
the packages cautioning in the use of the article. 
Our advise to all persons who use it, is to at once 
discontinue it and avoid tobaccoism, a dangerous 
heart disease, as well as tobacco cancer. 


ALCOHOLISM. 

Alcoholism is produced by the excessive use 
of alcohol. As this poison is now dispensed with 
in the United States of America by an amend¬ 
ment to the constitution, it is not necessary to 
say so very much about it. But for the benefit 
of people of other countries, we will advise that 
all at once discontinue the use of it, and avoid 
the dangers of Alcoholism . Like tobacco, alcohol 
is a good germicide for the reason that it is a 
poison that destroys life. 


CONSTIPATION, HOW RELIEVED. 

To relieve constipation, drink slowly a glass 
or two of pure warm water on arising in the 
morning in cold weather, and cool water—not 
cold—in warm weather. If preferred, eat some 
juicy sweetish fruit as apples, grapes, melons, 
oranges, pears or grape-fruit, instead of taking 
the water. Then abstain from eating till the 
bowels move. These are natural methods of 
overcoming constipation. To assist the fore¬ 
going remedies in acting, take a walk of from one 
to two miles, suggesting at starting out for the 
walk that your bowels will be sure to move on 
your return to your home, or the place where you 
are staying. Also occupy the Z position when 
moving bowels. This prescription is sure to 
overcome constipation if energetically followed, 
and you eat such foods as we have indicated in 
our menus, and take the exercises we have also 
directed. If constipation is obstinate, abstain 
from eating and drinking—except pure water— 
for from one to two days, and you then surely 
will have a motion of the bowels after eating a 
light meal of bran-bread with some butter and 
figs. As a last resort, an enema may be neces¬ 
sary. For the enema, use warmish water. 


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87 


Above all things, live right—as we direct else¬ 
where in this book—and avoid all medicines, so 
that you can effect a permanent cure. Use 
about two tablespoons of raw—uncooked— 
wheat bran at each meal, mixing it with your 
cereals. 


SLEEP. 

Sleep is a very important part of a health 
program. One should go to bed as early as nine 
o'clock p. m. and at all events should be in bed 
by eleven p. m. Of course different seasons and 
different avocations will make some difference 
in time of retiring. Every one in good health 
ought to have from 8 to 10 hours sleep each day 
of twenty-four hours. To start the days work in 
the best possible condition, one should get up 
of his—or her—own accord without using an 
alarm clock or being called. When all the 
necessary sleep is had, one will wake up and feel 
fine, and will get up without any effort and will 
find the doing, of whatever is to be done, a 
pleasure. If one is in good health and is living 
right, the sleep will be sound and refreshing, and 
usually eight hours will be all that is needed. 
Each individual should have a bed all to himself, 
so he can change his position any time without 
being in danger of injuring some other person in 


88 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

the same bed. Besides sleeping alone always 
rests one much better than sleeping with someone 
else. A good bath before retiring will usually 
help in promoting sound sleep. If sleep is 
sound and deep, the vitality is more rapidly 
regained, than if it is light and with frequent 
spells of wakefulness. So use all natural means 
to secure the deep sound sleep that makes a new 
person of you over night. Unless unusual con¬ 
ditions require it, always be in bed at least as 
early as 10 p. m. Sleep as much as possible on 
your right side during the first few hours and 
after that on left side, back or belly at different 
times so as to—by various positions—aid the 
movement of the contents of the bowels. When 
you retire you may have a part of the last meal 
taken in your stomach and by lying on your 
right side till this food is out of it you mechanical¬ 
ly help the stomach to get rid of this feed. Tak¬ 
ing the different positions rests the muscles and 
nerves evenly. In hot weather, use no cover, and 
at no season more than is necessary to keep you 
comfortable. If you can accustom yourself to 
sleeping without night clothing, so much the 
better, as then more air will reach the skin and 
you will be better vitalized by your sleep. 


EXERCISE AND WORK. 

Muscular exercise and muscular work are 
about the same in effect in the development of 
the body and in maintaining it in perfect health, 
both of which they effect. But if the work is 
such that the muscles are only in a small way 
exercised, it is then necessary to take what is 
called exercise. As an illustration, the lady 
book-keeper only uses her muscles very lightly 
in her work and therefore she should take long 
walks, run races, or in some other way each day, 
before and after working hours, give her muscles 
a few hours vigorous exercise. Riding about in 
an auto or carriage is not good exercise, but 
entering into all those games that require vigor¬ 
ous and quick use of all of the muscles is the 
best. All persons whose work is insufficient to 
vigorously exercise all the muscles, should each 
day take, both in the morning and evening, about 
two hours vigorous exercise to build up and keep 
the body in good health and strength. Long 
walks at a rapid pace are excellent. But while 
this might be sufficient in the morning, besides 
this, we like the active games in the evening after 
working hours, and especially such as engage the 
entire company in active motions, such as catch¬ 
ing each other as in the old-fashioned games of 

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90 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

Blackman, Base, Pullaway, Dancing the Qua¬ 
drille, and all such games, in which both men and 
women, as well as boys and girls, can take active 
parts. All these games always furnish much 
merriment as well as ideal exercise. The beauty 
of these games, is they can all be gone through 
with, out in the pure fresh air and engage all of 
the participants and give them the highest class 
of exercise possible. The merriment and laugh¬ 
ter take the mind away from all troubles and 
cares and produce a sort of ecstacy that has 
untold benefits in it. We advise all persons to 
get into all such games, for about two hours each 
evening, in all places where the days work does 
not vigorously exercise all parts of the body. 
Under our theory and practice, we make no dis¬ 
tinction in age, but consider those the youngest 
that can outdo all the others in activity. Some 
of these may be in years from 100 young up to 
500 or 1000, or old from 60 down to 20 or 10 
years. Remember, that if the right life is lived, 
the more years we have traveled about the sun, 
the more beautiful, the stronger and more active 
we become, under the latest discovery in physical 
and mental culture. The longer we live the 
better we become, and thus becoming more 
efficient in all things, the more we can do and the 
happier we can be. We maintain our youth and 


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91 


increase it by this activity in both physical and 
mental exercise. That the vocal organs may be 
exercised in the proceeding, the singing of old and 
new cheerful songs should be added to these 
exercises, or the songs may be sung in a con¬ 
venient hall, or large room, at the close of the out¬ 
door exercises. It will even help the carpenter 
and farm laborer to take part in these exercises. 
If their muscles are numb from fixed and set 
motions, this will liven them up and put 
them in fine shape for a good night's sleep. 
Most all persons lack this exercise and should 
engage in it. 

Exercises in a gymnasium are good where 
those kinds are taken that do not cause sore 
muscles. Running, where it can be taken in a 
moderate way, or in short runs, as in playing ball, 
is excellent exercise to put the entire body in 
good shape, but long races in competition for 
prizes, or as feats of endurance, are too violent 
to be highly beneficial. If running could be so 
engaged in as to not become too violent, it has 
no equal as a good form of exercise. Raising 
and lowering the body by placing two chairs 
with suitable backs near each other, and then 
placing a hand on each chair back and elevating 
the body between them, is fine exercise for the 
arms and upper part of the body, and this con- 


92 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

venience can be had most anywhere. This 
develops the arm and shoulder muscles as well 
as the muscles supporting the spinal column. 
Swinging dumb-bells, or Indian clubs, is also 
good exercise, but unless taken in connection 
with other forms of exercise, does not furnish 
sufficient exercise to develop a complete and 
strong body. Each person must largely on his, 
or her, own account study out such forms of 
exercise as they can take under the circumstances 
surrounding them. One important thing to be 
observed, is not to exercise so as to strain any of 
the muscles, nor to such a degree of violence as 
to produce exhaustion. If good judgment is 
exercised, there will be no trouble on this ac¬ 
count. 

Besides exercising in the various ways sug¬ 
gested, you can reach several muscles by walking 
on all fours, making your legs the hind legs of any 
four-legged animal and your arms and hands 
your front legs. Then walk all about your 
room every morning on arising, and before dress¬ 
ing, and again before going to bed at night as 
well as on any other occasions suitable. In this 
way make an elephant, horse or camel of your¬ 
self, and have one or two small children get 
on your back and ride. Their additional weight 
will help to strengthen the various muscles in 


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93 


your body, and by holding your head down lower 
than your back, you will flush your face and head 
muscles, as well as the skin of your face and head, 
helping to improve the beauty of your face and 
hair. To do this, from ten to fifteen minutes 
four or five times each day, will in a few months 
wonderfully improve your appearance, and add 
greatly to your health and strength. The 
evolutionists claim we are descended from frogs, 
monkeys and similar animals, and as our remote 
ancestors walked most of the time on all four 
legs, it seems to do us good to imitate them part 
of the time. The writer now recalls one of his 
father's neighbors that would get down in this 
way and have a full-grown man stand on his 
back, and who at the age of about 100 was still 
living in good health. This position has several 
good features, as it exercises the arm, shoulder 
and side muscles as no other form of exercise can, 
and by the action of gravitation, brings extra 
blood into all of these parts. At first it may not 
feel very agreeable, but after a few systematic 
efforts, the ancestral habit is renewed, and it is 
quite agreeable to you. This also exercises the 
toes, legs and abdomen in fine shape. So try 
it out. 


RECREATION. 


Recreation is some times a light form of 
exercise, but usually the word has reference to 
attending a lecture, theatre, show, ball game, or 
other game or entertainment, or it may consist 
in visiting friends, or taking a walk. Recreation 
always proves most beneficial when you have an 
agreeable companion as your wife, husband, best 
lady or gentleman friend, your children, or good 
companions of some kind with you, with whom 
you can visit and share the pleasures. When 
circumstances will permit, you should attend to 
this recreation—as well as other parts of a 
health program—and always select what your 
company enjoys most, and do your best to make 
your companions as happy as possible, as this 
will give you the most enjoyment and thus 
create you over in the best possible manner. 

During these recreation periods—if you have 
worries, lock them up in your office, or the least 
frequented room in your house—so they will not 
interfere with the enjoyment you must have to 
make you over into a new man, or new woman. 
This recreation can follow your period of exer¬ 
cise in the evening in many instances. Roller 
skating in the warm season, and either roller or 
ice skating in the cold season, are both good 

94 


EDUCATION 


95 


recreation and exercise together. If you have a 
garden on your premises, working in it is also a 
good recreation. It brings you in contact with 
vegetables, flowers and fruits and will often 
remove the worry from your mind. 


EDUCATION. 

Education means a leading out. When a 
person is rightly educated, his body and mind 
are developed naturally as an oak tree is de¬ 
veloped from an acorn. Mental education con¬ 
sists—not so much in storing the mind with a 
large number of unimportant things—as in 
training the mind for rapid and ready acquisition 
of necessary knowledge at such times as this 
may become necessary. Besides a good knowl¬ 
edge of general principles, we need only a 
knowledge of the practical things that we can 
use in our right living. 

A right education consists, mainly, in the 
formation of right habits of both body and mind. 
Right education is the natural and harmonious 
development of both body and mind. Every 
organ of the body and every faculty of the mind 
should be completely and perfectly developed. 
Right education teaches us that we can secure 


96 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

our own highest happiness, only, by promoting 
the highest happiness of all others. The object 
of education is to procure the highest happiness 
of the individual by promoting the highest 
happiness of the community. 

All persons—both children and grown up 
people—should be educated and so trained that 
each will lead and live the perfect life as laid 
down in this book, in order that each may become 
perfectly happy at all times, and of course, be 
best prepared to aid in bringing about a condi¬ 
tion of perfection of all things surrounding 
everybody. 


WHAT TO READ. 

We should read only the smallest amount of 
newspaper items and other matter necessary to 
keep us moderately informed. All reading— 
above what is really necessary—is depressing 
and tends to weaken our eyes and nervous 
system. Any fiction read should be of strictly 
philosophical or historical kind. Indiscriminate 
reading of fiction and ordinary matter creates 
a confusion of ideas that we should have in our 
minds. All our ideas—mental pictures—should 
be such as we ought to have to elevate us. Too 


WHAT TO READ 


97 


much reading of the wrong kind of fiction has in 
many instances so weakened the mind as to 
cause insanity. So beware of this danger. The 
mind should be in possession of established facts, 
scientific knowledge, and the rules or laws for 
correct living and thinking. Study Geology, 
Astronomy, Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, 
Mental Philosophy, Arithmetic, Algebra, Ge¬ 
ometry, Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene and 
other necessary subjects, including History. 
The study of these things strengthens and im¬ 
proves the mind, and elevates us and makes us 
better. We ought to have laws passed and 
rigidly enforced to keep from being published, 
all fiction not historical or strictly philosophical. 
Also no letter smaller than ten point should be 
allowed to be used in printing. All ornamental 
letters that are difficult for ordinary persons to 
read, should be prohibited. Each language 
should have a letter for each elementary sound, 
and under the World Government, all sounds 
that are the same should be represented through¬ 
out the world by the same letter. This would 
rapidly lead to a world language. 


HEIGHT AND WEIGHT. 


MEASUREMENTS OF IDEAL MEN 
Height Weight Chest, 

Feet Inches Pounds Inches 


5 

0 

105-110 

32-33 

5 

1 

110-115 

33-34 

5 

2 

115-120 

34-35 

5 

3 

120-125 

35-36 

5 

4 

125-130 

36-37 

5 

5 

130-135 

37-38 

5 

6 

135-142 

38-39 

5 

7 

145-152 

39-40 

5 

8 

155-160 

40-41 

5 

9 

165-170 

41-42 

5 

10 

170-175 

42-43 

5 

11 

175-185 

43-44 

6 

0 

185-200 

44-45 


MEASUREMENTS OF IDEAL WOMEN 

Height 

Weight, 

Chest 

Feet 

Inches 

Pounds 

Inches 

5 

0 

102 

27 

5 

i 

108 

27 H 

5 

2 

114 

28 

5 

3 

120 

28 ^ 

5 

4 

126 

29 M 

5 

5 

133 

303^ 

5 

6 

142 

3iy 2 

5 

7 

157 

32y 2 

5 

8 

167 

33y 2 

5 

9 

170 

35 

5 

10 

175 

37 

5 

11 

185 

39 

6 

0 

195 

43 


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SUN-LIGHT 


99 


There will be some slight variations in differ¬ 
ent persons, owing to inherited proportions, and 
still the individual will be a finely proportioned 
and beautiful person. But above table will be 
very convenient in comparing and determining 
about the right proportions for ideal health. 


SUN-LIGHT. 

Sun-light has a wonderfully enlivening effect 
upon the healthful growth of both vegetation 
and animals, and seems to even furnish material 
elements to them that cannot be furnished in 
any other way. Shut out the sun-light from 
vegetation and it soon looses its color and vigor, 
and after a short period dies. Place a healthy, 
vigorous person in a dark room for a few years 
and he becomes pale and anemic and feeble. 
Both the vegetation and the person may have 
all other things necessary to keep them in health 
and vigor, but if continually deprived of the life- 
giving rays of the sun, will grow feeble and be 
short lived. Knowing this, get out into the 
bright sun-light for at least a few hours each day. 
By saying this, we do not advise another extreme 
—which is to remain for long periods in a mid¬ 
day hot sun—as this extreme is almost as bad as 


100 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

complete deprivation of the sun-light. But 
bask in the sun only when the warmth is agree¬ 
able. Take your out-door exercise in the sun, 
early and late in the day in the hot season, and 
in the middle of the day in the cold season. If 
the out-door air is intensely cold in the winter, 
leave the sun-light shine in your room through 
the windows. But a rapid walk for an hour or 
more in a cold dry air, is very invigorating and— 
so long as the person is perfectly comfortable— 
benefits are derived from such walk. Do not 
continue such walk if you begin to feel un¬ 
comfortable. 

Use good judgment about this life-giving 
sun-shine. Remember that because an article 
of food is very good, you are not to eat more of 
it than you can thoroughly digest and assimilate. 
It is the same with sun-light. But when it 
is not too hot or too cold, take as much exercise 
as possible in the life-giving sun-light. Remem¬ 
ber that wherever a tree shades any part of your 
garden that there vegetation grows feebly. 
Take off your hat, bonnet or cap often and allow 
the sun to shine directly on your head, and your 
hair will grow more vigorously. If all persons 
went bareheaded—few would have bald heads 
or gray hairs—if they lived perfect lives in other 
respects. 


WEATHER CONDITIONS. 


Weather conditions are to be considered 
when arranging for out-door exercise. Avoid 
vigorous exercise when warm humid air is the 
only air you breathe, as the less of such air you 
breathe the better—provided you get enough to 
keep you living. Animals—other than man¬ 
kind—in such weather, usually rest till better 
air is to be had. We should do the same. 

Do not exercise for any long period in an 
extremely cold air, one much below zero, 
Fahrenheit. Also avoid much exercise in a 
temperature above 88 degrees in the shade. 
During the extreme summer heat, work should 
be done between daybreak and nine in the morn¬ 
ing, and after five in the evening. Do not go to 
either extreme in exposing yourself to tempera¬ 
tures. The best temperatures—when exercise 
is to be taken or work is to be done—are those 
ranging from 88 degrees to zero. Sleeping rooms 
should be well ventilated in cold weather as well 
as in warm weather. If the sleeping room is a 
tight one that air cannot enter, at least one 
window should be raised half an inch or more in 
the coldest weather. The door—or a transom 
above it—should also be open. 


101 


RETIRING FROM BUSINESS. 


Persons who have spent from twenty to 
fifty years at any one kind of business, must be 
very careful how they live when they retire from 
any kind of active business, whether it be such 
as required great mental or physical activity, 
or both, as accustoming themselves to such 
changes after they have become used to certain 
forms of activity—either of mind or body, or 
both—is a difficult thing to do satisfactorily. 
The farmer who for all of his life has been used 
to much activity—bodily exercise—in order to 
retain his health, must continue to take about 
the same amount of exercise in some way that he 
has fixed as a habit. If he fails to take this 
exercise and sits about and lies down a good 
deal of the time, he is sure to become diseased as 
all experience shows. If he moves to town, he 
should—at least—have a good sized garden to 
spade and plant and keep in order and a cow 
and some chickens besides to look after. And 
when this does not give him enough exercise he 
should take long walks, run at moderate rates 
for considerable distances at stated times each 
day, perform on backs of chairs as parallel bars, 
walk on all fours as well as on his hands—if he 
can do this—and go to shows and lectures and— 


102 


RETIRING FROM BUSINESS 


103 


except while sleeping at night—from eight to 
ten hours—should all of the rest of his time be 
actively engaged in some work that he likes to 
do. He should also avoid eating any flesh meats 
and use milk, eggs, cheese and butter in modera¬ 
tion and live mostly on vegetable foods, such as 
our menus suggest. If he will do all this, he can 
build up a splendid condition of health. We do 
not mean he cannot take time to read his daily 
papers and spend as much as three to four hours 
each day reading and studying. After many 
years of this activity, he can then very gradually 
reduce his activity to as low as six or seven hours 
per day. Activity is health and life. 

About the same instructions will apply to all 
manual workers, whether it be mechanical or 
common labor. Office workers will need almost 
as much of physical labor but ability to stand the 
work and exercise will have to be considered. 
This class can perhaps be benefited by several 
hours more of reading and studying each day as 
they have been used for long hours to inactivity. 
There is nothing so good for any person—either 
man or woman—as a good lot of moderately 
active out-door work or exercise. Under Exer¬ 
cise and Work in this book we give good instruc¬ 
tions to be followed by all persons and it will be 
well for you to study over the subject as given 


104 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

there. But all should remember that all changes 
in life should be made gradually and not sud¬ 
denly. In making these changes, the increased 
exercise—or physical work—should be so grad¬ 
ually brought about as to give no pain or tired 
feeling. Remember, activity is life, and stag¬ 
nation is death. The right kind of activity will 
improve your condition at any age. Inactivity 
at any age will make you grow old, stupid, dis¬ 
eased and produce death. 

We like the division of each day of twenty- 
four hours as follows: Six to eight for work and 
exercise, eight to ten for sleep and the balance 
for eating, studying, reading and recreation. 
Usually three hours of active work or exercise 
in the forenoon and the same amount in the 
afternoon will be sufficient to keep one in good 
condition. 


TEETH. 

The teeth should be carefully cared for. 
Most persons use too much polishing material 
on their teeth and this wears away the enamel 
and causes them to decay. A medium stiff 
tooth-brush is all that should be used on them as 
a rule. This should not be used oftener than 
about once each day, as even too much rubbing 


TEETH 


106 


of the enamel with a tooth-brush will wear it 
away. All tooth polishes and powders have 
more or less grit in them and frequent use, 
together with the friction of a stiff tooth-brush, 
will wear away the enamel, and when this is 
gone, it is not long before the more porous parts 
of the teeth turn black and begin to decay. In 
an experience of over sixty years with our teeth, 
we find that we have often been so busy that all 
we could do was to remove the particles of food 
that lodged between them and rinse them off 
with clear fresh water. During such periods, 
they were in almost as fine a condition as when 
we brushed them vigorously every day. In a 
healthy person, Nature—God—has so arranged 
the teeth that the saliva and tongue will keep 
them clean, and above the daily washing of them 
with a tooth-brush, we are now convinced that 
nothing further is needed. Use of tea, coffee, 
tobacco, strong acids, such as vinegar, pickles 
and like foods, as well as by sudden change of 
temperatures—caused by taking food or drink 
that is very hot or very cold—sooner or later, 
will injure them. Also biting hard substances 
as metal, rock and hard-shell nuts will injure the 
teeth. So our experience has taught us, that if 
we want to have good teeth, we must live right 
and use nothing in polishing them, except a 


106 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

medium stiff tooth-brush, and your fingers are 
even safer than the brush. Chewing all of your 
food into a liquid and using much raw food is 
helpful in bringing fresh blood to them which 
keeps them growing. 


TONGUE. 

The tongue is an index as to healthful and 
unhealthful conditions. If the person is in good 
health, it is of a flesh color and free from fur, 
pimples and inflamed spots and streaks. It is 
composed of muscular fibres so arranged that it 
can be made into most any shape and can reach 
all parts of the mouth, both inside and outside. 
It aids in mastication of food and in swallowing 
either food or drink. It is an important organ 
of speech and in various positions enables us to 
produce the various necessary sounds used in 
speaking. It is properly exercised in the various 
uses for which it is adapted as in mastication of 
food, tasting, speaking, singing, polishing of the 
teeth and removing from them particles of food 
that at times adhere to them. 

It is the organ of taste and by placing a part 
of any substance on it, we can at once determine 
the taste. Avoid eating or drinking such foods 


TONGUE 


107 


and drinks as are disagreeable to your taste. 
Healthful foods and drinks should taste good 
when you are hungry or thirsty. Avoid this, 
however, as to all of those foods and drinks that 
you did not like the first time you tasted them. 
All children have to be educated to use flesh 
meats, coffee, tea, tobacco, alcohol and many 
other injurious things, so the rule is to use those 
things—that as a little child—you liked from the 
beginning without having to learn to use them. 


LARYNX AND THROAT. 

The larynx contains the vocal cords and is a 
cartilaginous tube located immediately above 
the tube leading into the lungs. As the vowel 
and the subvocal sounds are largely dependent 
upon the vocal cords, it is important that the 
larynx and throat are kept in a perfectly health¬ 
ful condition. To maintain this condition of 
these organs, they should be regularly and 
systematically exercised in speaking and singing. 
Even ordinary talking is much better than no 
exercise of them. Reciting poems and other 
literary compositions as well as reading aloud 
from any book or paper will help to maintain 
them in good condition. All children and other 


108 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

students are much benefited by public speaking 
and singing and should be trained in it daily. 
Parents should often have their children read 
aloud to them at home. By experience we all 
know how bad it makes us feel to be kept where 
no one engages us in conversation. We should 
arrange so that every day we use our vocal 
organs, if we wish to keep in the best possible 
condition of health. We may systematically 
exercise all other parts of our bodies daily, but 
if we fail to exercise our voices, the circuit has 
a break in it which will be felt and noticed. 
Therefore we say, talk, recite, sing and read 
aloud each day. 


SALIVA. 

The saliva is an alkaline liquid secreted by 
the salivary glands, and its use is to dissolve 
germs coming onto the teeth, tongue and other 
parts of the mouth, as well as to moisten all 
food during mastication, neutralize acids and 
convert starch into sugar, and furnish an im¬ 
portant digestive fluid to aid in the stomach 
digestion. When food is thoroughly mixed with 
this saliva and passes into the stomach, it meets 


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the acid gastric juice of the stomach and an 
effervescence takes place which aids in a material 
way in promoting a perfect digestion of all foods 
so saturated. Hence no food is in proper shape 
to be well digested that is not thoroughly mixed 
with this saliva, and the more thorough the 
mixture the better, as no particle of food should 
go to the stomach without this preparation. 
Without its neutralizing effect on the gastric 
juice in the stomach, the food swallowed would 
be only a sour and poisonous mass to produce 
all kinds of trouble. Saliva is in health, being 
constantly secreted and as secreted—when food 
is not being taken—flows down into the stomach, 
and if it were not for this constant flow of the 
saliva, the gastric juice would throw us into a 
fever by causing an acid condition of the blood. 
Hence we should not chew gum and spit away 
our saliva. Neither should we chew tobacco or 
anything else and spit out the saliva. The 
deadly tobacco, if the saliva were swallowed, 
would soon destroy the life of the unfortunate 
user. If you chew gum, swallow the saliva. It 
is best to refrain from chewing anything except 
your food, and to use all of your saliva in pre¬ 
paring this for perfect digestion. 


STOMACH. 


The stomach is the receptacle for masticated 
—and unmasticated—food. It secretes a power¬ 
ful digestive fluid of an extremely acid character, 
and the nitrogenous foods that saliva cannot 
digest, are broken up by this gastric juice and 
prepared for nourishing the body. The stomach 
also acts as a grinding machine, and by rubbing 
the food between its walls, mixes up the food in 
the stomach with the gastric juice—and other 
juices—so that the chemical process of digestion 
can take place, whereby the food is made into 
a liquid before it is passed into the small in¬ 
testine to be treated with further chemical 
fluids—as the bile from the liver and the pan¬ 
creatic fluid from the pancreas. The capacity 
of the stomach—if not unduly distended—is 
about one quart in a person of ordinary size and 
naturally developed. In those who live ab¬ 
stemiously, it is smaller and in the glutton it may 
be as large as a gallon—or even two gallon— 
vessel. But in a healthy person naturally and 
properly developed, it is in the neighborhood of 
one quart, that it will contain without being in 
danger of over distension. If food is slowly 
chewed and the period of about one hour—or 
more—is given to consuming a meal, at least 


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about one-third of the food ought to be at end 
of the meal out of the stomach, so that three 
pints in quantity would not distend the stomach 
unduly, as at no time would it contain above two 
pints. Our advice is to eat slowly and take 
plenty of time for each meal. Chew all foods to 
a liquid and eat liquid foods slowly with a tea¬ 
spoon. 


LIVER. 

The liver—besides performing other work— 
secretes a digestive fluid, bile, which is strongly 
alkaline and helps to get acids out of the way if 
contained in the digested—and partly digested— 
food as it comes into the small intestine from the 
stomach, and in addition converts oils and fats 
into an emulsion to enable the lactic vessels to 
suck up the nutriment from the small intestine 
and through the thoracic duct—canal—conduct 
the nutriment into the venous blood where it is 
sent into the heart and lungs to have the finish¬ 
ing processes convert it into perfect blood, ready 
to nourish and supply all the tissues of the body 
with the material for their growth. 

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112 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

gestive processes and furnishes aid in various 
ways to keep up the natural and healthful 
action of the intestines. It is situated on the 
right side, immediately below the diaphram, and 
is composed of four lobes, two large and two 
small. It weighs from four to five pounds in 
healthful conditions, and is brown in color. When 
people eat too much—or improper foods—this 
organ is often overworked and becomes dis¬ 
ordered, and doctors call this disease by various 
names. To keep this liver of ours in a good 
working order, we should be very careful about 
our eating and also about our drinking. In 
most cases of liver disorder, a fast of from one to 
three days with no drink, except pure water in 
reasonable quantities will—in most cases—be 
all that is required, if moderate exercise is taken, 
to remove the trouble. 


PANCREAS. 

The pancreas is a gland—lying near to the 
stomach—which secretes the pancreatic juice. 
Its duct—which conducts this juice into the 
small intestine—enters it near to the entrance 
of the bile duct. Pancreatic fluid is alkaline 
and further aids the alkaline bile in neutralizing 


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the acid in the food as it reaches the small in¬ 
testine from the stomach. Besides the alkaline 
ingredients in both the pancreatic fluid and the 
bile, there are also other chemical ingredients in 
both these substances that are beneficial in 
aiding the complete digestion of the food. A 
disordered condition—brought about by eating 
the wrong foods—or the right foods in the 
wrong combinations—or wrong quantity at the 
wrong time—or other conditions affecting health 
—no doubt—put this organ out of the natural 
condition. The sure and best remedy in such a 
condition is rest, brought about by a short fast 
of from one to three days. 

A short fast is almost a safe remedy for most 
any diseased condition of the system, as it 
enables all the overworked organs of the body 
a chance to get rested up, and freed from such 
poisons as are put into it by trying to consume 
more food than is required, or improper food, 
or food when the system is not in condition 
to digest it. Digestion—to produce pure 
blood—must be accomplished by organs and 
glands in their normal condition. To secure this, 
short fasts are required as often as every day, 
by not eating before noon. 


KIDNEYS. 


The kidneys are located in the upper part 
of the abdomen near the back wall and below the 
diaphram. They are connected with the arter¬ 
ies and veins and through them with the liver. 
Their use is to filter certain poisons out of the 
blood. Just how this is done—it seems—is 
not fully understood. 


BLADDER. 

The bladder is situated at the bottom of the 
abdominal cavity, midway between the right 
and left walls and nearer to the front than to the 
rear of the abdomen. It is an elastic sack, 
capable of being distended to a larger size as the 
urine accumulates in it, and its use is to store the 
urine as it accumulates until such times as it is 
convenient to void it. 

A person in good health and eating from two 
to three meals each day, should void the urine 
about every three to four hours. Whenever a 
considerable amount has accumulated, there is 
danger of any sediment in it forming gravel. 
The bladder is so intimately connected with the 


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116 


sexual organs, that any misuse of the sexual 
organs—as in all cases of sexual dissipation from 
any cause—will at once cause bladder troubles. 
So to avoid all these troubles, live a continent 
and virtuous life. Remember that the sexual 
organs can only be exercised for procreation and 
that even this exercise often produces urinary 
troubles. As a very temperate and abstemious 
life produces the largest amount of real health, 
it is always best to live the perfect life to the 
best of your ability under the circumstances. 
This life will free you from all of the distressing 
diseases connected with the bladder and its 
associated organs. 


BONES. 

The bones form the framework of the body 
and furnish points of attachment for the muscles 
through their tendonous ends. They are con¬ 
nected together at their ends by ligaments which 
keep them in their positions. They are further 
kept in place by being surrounded by various 
membranes, muscles, blood vessels, fatty and 
other tissues. 


MUSCLES. 


The muscles are the tissues that enable us to 
move about, talk, and perform all kinds of work. 
The mind—acting on them through the motor 
nerves—controls them and causes them to act 
in various ways which enables us to maintain our 
life, and do all kinds of things necessary for our 
health and happiness. By the action of the 
mind on the muscles, we can develop about all 
other parts of the body and can procure what¬ 
ever is necessary for our perfect happiness. 


INTESTINES. 

The intestines are a continuation of the 
alimentary canal, after we leave the stomach. 
At the commencement of this part of the canal, 
we have the last important chemical change of 
the partly digested food by its being here mixed 
with the bile and pancreatic juice, which about 
completes the process of digestion. The nu¬ 
tritious part of the digested food—milk like—is 
now ready for absorption by the lymphatic 
vessels. These—together with other capillary 


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117 


vessels—suck out the finely prepared nutritious 
liquid and carry it in a prepared route to the 
large veins, where it is mixed with the venous 
blood and conveyed with it to the heart, lungs 
and back to the heart and from there to all 
parts of the body. 

The process of absorption of nutriment from 
the—digested and undigested—food is con¬ 
tinued throughout the entire intestinal canal. 
As the food is carried along towards the end of 
this canal, there is all the time less and less 
nutriment left in it, so at the descending colon 
and the rectum very little is left. What is 
left—in a natural and complete process of di¬ 
gestion—should be of a rather solid character 
and have no odors—or be almost free from odor. 

Besides the small intestine, we have the 
large intestine following it and into which the 
small intestine conducts its contents at its com¬ 
mencement—called the cecum—and located at 
the bottom of the abdomen on the right side. 
The appendix is attached to the cecum at its 
closed end. In appendicitis it is here the pain 
is felt. The appendix is inflamed and later 
suppurates and in various ways prevents the 
cecum and ascending colon from carrying their 
contents upwards. In the healthful action of 
these parts of the large intestine, their contents 


118 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

are carried up to the transverse colon which 
receives it and carries it across the abdomen to 
the descending colon. 

At or near the diaphragm, the colon turns— 
at about a right angle—and continues its course 
parallel with the diaphragm across the abdomen 
to the left side where it bends downwards and 
passes parallel with the left side of the abdomen 
down to the bottom on the left side where it 
forms the sigmoid flexure and connects with the 
rectum. The waste part of the contents of the 
intestines is stored in the sigmoid flexure—as it 
arrives—until those times at which it is expelled 
from the body through the rectum. 

That there may be no disorders—in this long 
and delicate canal out of which all substances 
are drawn for the building up and maintaining 
in health of all parts of the body—it is of the 
greatest importance that nothing should be sent 
into it that can in any possible way be injurious 
to the body. To maintain the highest degree of 
health and efficiency, the simpler and plainer 
the food and drink taken, the more certain it is 
that this long and delicate canal will continue 
to perform its duty in the best possible manner. 


NERVES. 


The nerves are the telephones of the body 
through which the mind acts on all parts of the 
different tissues, reaching all the cells wherever 
located. While the latest discoveries seem to 
indicate that the mind is a self-acting fluid that 
is in, around and all over the body and has an 
auric field—some times extending several inches 
from the body—it seems all action of the muscles 
originates in the brain, in the cases of voluntary 
movements. 

So from this, we will lay down the rule for 
healthy nerves—after we have attended to all 
other health rules—that we will exercise our 
muscles in a natural and agreeable way and not 
over strain them in either work or exercise. 
It is an established law of the muscular and 
nervous systems, that by commencing in a 
moderate way and gradually increasing the 
activity as the blood and other fluids of the body 
become more active, we can after awhile per¬ 
form almost miracles of motion without danger 
in any way of having bad effects follow the 
exercise. All muscular exercise tends to make 
the nerves steady, when the exercise is complete¬ 
ly under the control of the mind, and is not 


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beyond complete control, either as to rapidity 
of motion or vigor of action. Our advice— 
therefore—is to commence the exercise—or 
work—at a moderate rate and increase the 
rapidity of motion and force of action within 
easy control. 


HEART AND LUNGS. 

The heart is—in most persons—situated in 
the left side of the chest, but in some, well over 
to the right side, even beyond the breast-bone. 
Its apex usually reaches near to the diaphragm, 
opposite the upper part of the stomach, so that 
an undue distension of the stomach will affect 
the heart as is caused by eating too large a 
quantity of food, or by eating inharmonious 
food as milk and acid fruits, or any acid foods 
and milk at the same meal, this inharmonious 
combination forming gases which greatly expand 
the stomach so that it presses up against the 
heart and interferes with its healthful and har¬ 
monious action. On account of this, be sure 
to eat harmonious foods and these in not too 
large an amount at one meal. The heart is a 
muscular organ which pumps the blood—as it 


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121 


arrives—out to the lungs and all other parts of 
the body constantly—both day and night. 

The lungs comprise two parts, one in each 
side of the chest, and it is by the action of the 
diaphragm and the intercostal muscles that they 
are expanded and contracted, thus producing the 
process of breathing. It is here the blood re¬ 
ceives its oxygen and gives off its carbon dioxide 
gas. The lungs should always be supplied with 
plenty of pure fresh air, free from all con¬ 
taminating substances, as dust, poison gases and 
humidity. All occupied rooms should have pure, 
dry, dust and gas-free air, and the air should 
circulate about in them—coming in from outside 
at one end—or side—and passing out at the 
other end—or side—so that all impurities caused 
by breathing will rapidly be removed from the 
room. 


EARS. 

The ears are situated one on each side of the 
head, that we may hear any sounds coming from 
either direction. They are the most complex 
and delicate sense organs we have. In removing 
wax from them, great care should be exercised 
that the ear-drum may not be ruptured. It is a 


122 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

very delicate membrane that protects the deli¬ 
cate machinery of the inner ear and also aids in 
the hearing. If wax has collected—that cannot 
be removed by immersing the side of the head 
and ear in warm water—take a small match 
stem, having cut off the end for lighting, and 
cover it with a light, piece of soft white cloth, 
usually a cotton handkerchief, and extend it 
very slowly into the ear till you reach the lump 
of wax which will usually adhere to the cloth. 
A very small ear spoon may be used instead of 
the match, covering it with the soft, light white 
cloth. If you have roaring in your ears, ab¬ 
staining from all tonics and stimulating foods, 
will often remove the difficulty. A short fast 
of from one to three days is a very good remedy. 

Living the perfect life, as we elsewhere outline 
it in this book, will in about all cases remedy all 
defects in hearing. Of course if the ear drum 
has been destroyed, and the internal ear ma¬ 
chinery of hearing has been entirely destroyed, 
it would be difficult to restore the hearing. But 
such a misfortune only happens occasionally. 
So it is worth while to try all the methods we are 
suggesting. 


NOSE. 


The nose is the organ of smell. It is so 
situated above the mouth that it can give us 
prompt notice of the wrong kinds of food before 
we take any part of them into the mouth. The 
sense of smell, gives us pleasure when the food 
is agreeable to us, and pain when it is offensive 
to us. By this sense we also enjoy the agreeable 
perfumes of the various flowers. If the nose is 
small and thin, it can be enlarged and brought 
up to its normal size by exercising it through the 
various face muscles, for exercise of which see 
face and what is there said about exercising the 
face muscles. Always, if possible, breathe 
through the nose, as this is the natural method of 
breathing. The nasal passages strain out the 
particles of dust and microbes and prevent them 
reaching the delicate parts of the lungs. In 
some other way by warming up the air—we do 
not know just how—breathing through the nose, 
protects the lungs and throat from disease. 

Never be worried because you sneeze, as it 
is the method provided by nature for ridding the 
nasal passages from microbes, dust and other 
irritating substances. It is not a sign that you 
are taking cold, but a sign that you will not take 


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124 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

one. If you will blow your nose into a white 
handkerchief when you sneeze, you will see 
black specks which are the irritating substances 
which—if not sneezed out—would cause a cold 
in your head, or a sore throat. Pure out-door 
cold air is the best remedy for a cold in the head. 
The writer of this book has cured such colds very 
quickly on a few occasions when he was attacked 
by them in this way. The cold air kills the 
microbes. We always take these colds when we 
are housed up in a poorly ventilated room. The 
sure remedy is the freezing cold air. 


EYES. 


The eyes can be greatly strengthened and 
glasses can be dispensed with by means of the 
following exercises: Place a mark on the wall, 
the height of the head, using for this purpose any 
object that can be easily seen, as a long narrow 
calendar. Stand with the back to the wall, so 
that the mark is directly back of the head— 
when you look straight to the front—and then 
with any heavy weight in each hand, dumb-bells, 
flat-irons, or other articles that can be easily 
held, and that weigh from five to twenty-five 
pounds, having no heavier weights than can be 
easily held, with feet about five to six inches 
apart—and which must remain stationary while 
swinging alternately from one side to the other— 
twist the body and neck, so that with eyes also 
twisted, you can alternately see the mark on the 
wall from one side and in next turn on the other. 
Move slowly and count as you move from side to 
side till you have made 200 of these motions, 
commencing with about twenty at the first effort 
and gradually increasing them till you can make 
200 with no inconvenience. After resting a 
minute or two, then raise the weights above head 
and throw head back till you can see mark on ceil¬ 
ing above you, then throw head to front until you 


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see the floor in moving hands down. Repeat 
this motion about ten to fifteen times at first 
exercise, but gradually increase it to about 60 
times at an exercise. Always stop when tired 
and do not overdo any of these exercises. Take 
first on arising in the morning, and next about 
noon, third about six p. m., and last before 
going to bed. If you can take them once or 
twice additional to these, so much the better. 
By this means you exercise all parts of the eye 
and eye muscles and if you are living the perfect 
life—elsewhere outlined—you will soon find 
your eyes much improved. 

The exercising of the arms, shoulders, neck 
and spinal column, all help to draw blood to the 
eyes, which is what the eyes need. If you are 
using eye-glasses, leave them off when not 
reading or sewing and wear them as little as 
possible. Immediately after completing any 
part of the above exercises, go through with the 
exercises given under face and hair, so as to 
further draw blood in the neighborhood of the 
eyes. Also frequently while exercising, alter¬ 
nately roll the eyes in a circle—first four or five 
times to the right and then same number of 
times to the left. In taking your walks, as often 
as possible, look way to the right and then way 
to the left, and notice as many different things 


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127 


as possible all about you. This soon become as 
habit and it has a very good effect on the eyes. 
What injures eyes, is looking for long periods at 
one small space—or thing—as in reading, writ¬ 
ing, sewing and so on. Until you fully recover 
your eye-sight, do as little of that kind of work as 
possible. If this course is persisted in, it will 
soon improve your eyes. 

The author of this book has tried out all of 
the above directions with the result that he can 
now read easily almost any kind of printed 
matter without glasses. He now only uses 
glasses when he reads in a dim light or if the 
print is small. Young persons should never use 
eye-glasses. If no one ever had used glasses, all 
in good health, would see when old in years, as 
well as they did when young in years. Animals 
other than mankind, do not become blind when 
they become old in years and if people lived 
right they would not have defective eye-sight. 
Live right and your eyes will be all right. 


HAIR. 

The hair is one of the natural and principal 
ornaments of mankind. It should be grown to 
the best possible advantage. It will be neces¬ 
sary, for all who desire to grow luxuriant hair, 


128 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

to live the perfect life we outline elsewhere in 
this book. Before beginning the special exer¬ 
cises we are about to recommend, you should 
have your entire system in as healthy a condition 
as possible, so that you will have plenty of 
perfectly pure blood to invigorate the scalp, out 
of which your hair is to grow. In our article on 
bathing, we advise that no soap—or chemical of 
any kind—be used. This will also apply in 
washing the head and face. Use only water of 
such a temperature as is most agreeable to you. 
The head can be washed in the bath tub at the 
same time that you take your general bath. 
Apply plenty of water to the head and rub the 
scalp with the ends of the fingers, having the 
nails to not scratch the head. Then having thus 
cleansed the head, use no oil—or tonic of any 
kind—but massage the scalp with the ends of the 
fingers all over several times. Then place the 
hands on the head—loosely—and move and 
exercise all the muscles underlying the scalp for 
about five minutes. Then twist the scalp in 
all directions. Repeat this exercise as often as is 
agreeable. Avoid making the scalp sore. After 
you get used to this treatment, it ought to be 
gone through with about five to six times each 
day. After going to bed you can take this 
exercise and again on waking in the morning and 
before getting up. This treatment will even 


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restore gray hair to its natural color. We have 
seen this done. And age makes no difference, 
provided the individual lives the perfect life. 

The time required to restore faded and gray 
hair to its natural color, is from about two to five 
years. If you have not been living the perfect 
life—as we have outlined it in this book—it will 
usually take about one to two years to get 
trained for living the life perfectly—and until 
you do live this perfect life—you can do but 
little at restoring color to your hair. But by 
persevering in the course as directed, you are 
sure to fully succeed in the end. The author 
knows, because he has seen it done. There is no 
limit to the extent of the improvement that can 
be made in ones appearance if the course we have 
prescribed is rigidly and perseveringly followed. 
Soap destroys the oil glands on the scalp, and 
this will leave the hair without the tonic effect 
of this natural secretion and lubricant and there 
is nothing to take its place. An exercise that is 
good for the hair, is to walk about on all fours, 
that is on hands and feet. This is very good in 
developing arm and shoulder muscles and large 
muscles lying on the sides of the body as well as a 
good exercise of the spinal column. This exer¬ 
cise can easily be taken in your parlor—or bed¬ 
room—on arising in the morning and before 


130 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

retiring at night. At first it will be hard work, 
but after a few trials you will begin to enjoy it. 
Keep your head down as much as possible to 
cause the blood to flow freely into the scalp and 
face and thus flush these parts of the body. 
Hanging on a cross-bar with your feet—or legs— 
with your head hanging down, is very good for 
getting blood into the face and scalp. Soap, 
chemicals of all kinds, head dressings of all 
kinds and wrong living, is what causes all kinds 
of hair troubles. Nature has furnished the hair 
as the cover for the head. 


FACE. 

The face can be wonderfully improved, by 
making all kinds of faces for about ten to fifteen 
minutes four or five times each day. Im¬ 
mediately after taking your exercises for 
strengthening the eyes, go before a mirror—and 
as far as possible—twist your face into all kinds 
of shapes, holding it for a few seconds in each 
attitude. Inflate the lungs and then almost 
close the mouth—as in making the long sound 
of 0—and leave the air escape slowly. Repeat 
this several times in succession. Then twist the 
face as far as possible to the right and then to the 


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left and draw your lips into all manner of shapes. 
Fill your cheeks with all the air you can force 
into them, and then rub the tongue all about the 
inside of your cheeks. Open and shut your eyes 
and wrinkle your forhead, drawing the muscles 
overlying the head down as far as you can. 
Then grin broadly and open and shut your 
mouth as often as you can conveniently do it. 
The face muscles run in about all directions and 
are only exercised a very little in ordinary con¬ 
versation and in eating and will soon deteriorate 
—unless frequently exercised—and this not only 
is bound to give you a narrow, thin, wrinkled 
face, but one without natural color. But by 
exercising the face—as above explained—four 
to five times each day, you will soon plump it up 
and remove all wrinkles from it and bring the 
flush of youth to your cheeks. 

By the above exercises, people between the 
ages of seventy and one hundred years, have 
removed all wrinkles. Above exercises are fol¬ 
lowed by best results when you are living the 
perfect life as to all other things as directed in 
this book. Unless your body is full of the 
vitality produced by perfectly right living in 
every way, results from these exercises will only 
be slight. The whole health system must be 
operated together to bring about big and fully 
satisfying results. 


HANDS. 


The hands can be kept in the best possible 
condition by washing them in pure soft water, 
using no soap or chemicals. If one has been 
doing work which has placed grease upon them, 
sufficient soap may be used to dissolve the 
grease. This can also be dissolved by using 
water heated to about 115 degrees Fahrenheit. 
Many persons spoil their hands by using soap. 
This is easily done—if the skin is tender—as it is 
in case of all fair complectioned people. Strong 
soap eats out the oil glands which are located on 
the surface of the skin. When these are gone, 
no oil is secreted to oil the skin and it becomes 
rough and cracks open, especially in cold 
weather. 

Persons who use much paint and powder on 
their hands and faces, have overdone the use of 
soap, other chemicals and hot cloths. Remem¬ 
ber, Nature—God—has provided for all our 
requirements in just the right way and whenever 
we try to improve on His ways, we injure our¬ 
selves. Stains can often be removed by the use 
of lemon juice. This is to be rubbed on a few 
minutes before washing them in rather warm 
water. Avoid use of hot water as it will also 


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133 


injure the skin. Finger and toe nails should be 
kept in good shape by paring them frequently 
so they will never quite reach to tips of fingers or 
toes. They are best pared down almost to the 
quick, when you do pare them. If you follow 
these instructions—and live our perfect life— 
your hands will always be in fine condition. 


FEET. 

The feet should be used without shoes—as 
far as possible—sandals being worn instead. 
Shoes and boots—when used—should be the 
right size to make walking in them comfortable. 
If they do not fit the feet—in any way—blisters, 
bunions and corns are sure to result. These 
will produce nervousness and make progress in 
health and happiness impossible. So be sure to 
have your feet comfortable by wearing the right 
kinds of shoes. Better have your shoes a size 
too large than the least bit too small. Also have 
them as wide as your feet require. We do not 
like to see, either ladies or men, girls or boys, 
wearing long narrow shoes, which are so often 
considered the style. No well developed athletic 
person—either girl or boy, lady or man—has a 


134 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

long narrow foot. All such feet are largely de¬ 
formed and not natural. 

So wear the shoes that will give your feet 
room to spread out and be natural—as they 
should be—to be attractive. That your feet 
may be in the best possible condition— 
as often as practicable—go bare-footed, or wear 
soft, easy fitting slippers or sandals. The feet 
should also have as much special exercise as 
possible, to develop them and make them strong 
and capable of enduring long walks—from two 
to twenty miles—at a time. You cannot take 
the long, healthful, invigorating walks, unless 
you have good—healthy—feet. Several times 
each day stretch them about in all directions. 
Open and shut your toes as if they were your 
fingers. Raise with all your weight on your toes 
and also on your heels. 


SPLEEN. 

The spleen is situated between the stomach 
and diaphragm. It is claimed—by occultists— 
that it secretes from the blood the fine matter 
of which the vital body—which surrounds and 
interpenetrates the physical body—is composed 
It has—quite recently—been discovered that a 


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volatile substance—matter—found in fresh, raw 
vegetables, freshly drawn milk, fresh eggs, wheat 
and other cereals, fresh fruits and nut kernels— 
called vitamines—is necessary to be taken with 
our cooked—sterilized—foods, in order to pre¬ 
serve the body in health. 

It has been demonstrated that people living 
on cooked foods—exclusively—loose their health 
and grow feeble for want of this vitamine, and 
if too long deprived of it will die. For this 
reason, raw foods are necessary to keep us in 
health. It has something of the taste of honey— 
in freshly drawn milk—but disappears quickly 
if the milk is allowed to cool. 

These vitamines are—undoubtedly—secreted 
by the spleen and in some way—we do not fully 
understand—conducted into the vital body. 
Vitamines are the active life principles—the 
substances out of which our spiritual bodies are 
constructed. Cooking, baking and roasting, 
destroys them in all foods so prepared, and is 
worse than useless work. 


SKIN. 

The skin is one of the most important organs 
of the body. It is the beautiful robe that 


136 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

clothes us. If it were not for a wrong education, 
it would be all sufficient, and a vastly better 
garment than anything we have—so far—been 
able to design, since the age when our ancestors 
wore fig leaves on all dress occasions. The bear, 
cow, dog, horse and all other animals, are more 
finely and better clothed than mankind. Man¬ 
kind's clothing would be the same, if it had not 
been for the mistakes of our ancient ancestors. 

The skin not only covers us perfectly, but 
is so well ventilated that we can receive through 
it the magnetism that is in the air and sunlight, 
without which we could not live for an hour. 
Actors have lost their lives by covering them¬ 
selves with gold-leaf—and so quickly—that a 
hasty removal of the covering did not save their 
lives. From this, it is evident that a substance 
is—in some way—received from the air through 
the skin, that keeps us alive. 

Therefore we should pay the greatest atten¬ 
tion—possible—to our skin. The less clothing 
we wear, the better, even in cold weather. The 
importance of the air and sun baths are evident, 
to say nothing of the water bath. Our greatest 
health specialists, now recommend sleeping 
without night garments in properly heated 
rooms, with the bed covers raised several inches 
above the body. 


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Did you ever feel the luxury of getting up on 
a cold night and walking about in your room 
without clothing? If not, just try it. You need 
not fear taking cold. It will keep you from 
taking cold. It is a good plan to walk about 
—entirely nude—in your room before going to 
bed. It is even better than a cold water bath. 
This is what is called an air bath. It is wonder¬ 
fully invigorating. The vitality seems to be 
greatly increased by this exposure of the entire 
surface of the body to the air. This air bath 
should also be taken in the morning before 
dressing. 

Every day the entire body should be bathed 
in pure water—at an agreeable temperature— 
without chemicals or soap. An ideal water is 
fresh rainwater to be used as soon as possible 
after it falls. This water contains only the 
elements of life and is the most invigorating of 
all known waters. It causes both animal and 
vegetable to grow as no other water will. If you 
have a suitable place in which to take this kind 
of a bath, when it rains, take off your clothing 
and stand out in the rain as it falls, and receive 
all the life elements fresh from the hands of 
Nature—God—and you will find it the best bath 
you ever had. It will remind you of the fabled 
fountain of youth. Nature has not filed the 


138 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

prescription for producing this vitalizing water 
in any office. No chemist can imitate it. It 
cleanses, vitalizes and invigorates as nothing 
—except pure fresh air and sunlight—can. 

The skin exudes a sensible and insensible 
perspiration and for this reason, a daily bath 
should be taken, even when it does not rain, 
using the nearest approach—as possible—to 
pure rainwater. Use no soap, or other chemicals 
in bathing. Soap eats out the oil glands and 
leaves the skin rough. Never bathe in water 
uncomfortably warm or cold. Have the water 
comfortable to you. 

You can get all the good effects of the cold 
bath, by standing in the fresh air for a short time 
after taking the bath and before dressing. All 
veins on the feet and legs are—largely—on the 
surface and flow upwards. So always wipe in 
the direction of the heart—upwards on the feet 
and legs—both in washing and in wiping off 
after the bath. For the same reason wipe 
inwards on hands and arms. By elevating the 
hands and arms before washing and wiping, 
you can further aid in facilitating the flow of the 
blood in the natural direction and thus produce 
a mechanical tonic effect on the body. If you 
wipe in the reverse direction you enlarge the 
veins and depress the vitality by a wrong 


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method. If you can elevate the legs before 
wiping, so much the better. But be sure to 
wipe in the direction of the heart in all cases, 
both in washing as well as in wiping. This will 
save you from enlarged veins, which can easily 
be produced by wiping and washing the limbs 
in the wrong directions. 


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SYSTEMATIC LIVING. 

Systematic living is important in every way. 
The person who has no regular program, by 
which to be governed, is never at ease, as he or 
she is sure to be forgetting many necessary 
things that should be done to keep the system in 
perfect health. When you have for any period 
established yourself in a room or building, and 
know about the things you are going to do, at 
once make up a program and try it out for a day 
—or two—and then change it to what will 
provide the best possible system of living under 
the circumstances. Thus you will know when 
to retire and when to get up, and when to do 
each particular thing, whether it be to do your 
work, take your exercise, bath, eat, and so on. 
Without this program you will be overlooking 
some necessary duty, and before long you will be 
worrying. Among the things to put into this 
program will be what to eat and drink, and when 
and about what amount. WTiat kinds of exer¬ 
cise and when to take them. When to do your 
shopping and visiting. WLen to receive your 
friends, do your reading, writing, or singing. 


IDEAL PROGRAM. 


The ideal program should be a fixed program 
for each person, depending on the occupation. 
We will prepare one for the ideal mother. 

9:00 p. m. to 6:00 a. m., for sleeping. 

6:00 a. m. to 7:00 a. m., for bathing children. 
7:00 a. m. to 7:30 a. m., preparing breakfast. 
7:30 a. m. to 8:00 a. m., eating breakfast. 

8:00 a. m. to 9:00 a. m., exercising children. 
9:00 a. m. to 10:00 a. m., house work. 

10:00 a. m. to 11:00 a. m., shopping. 

11:00 a. m. to 12:00 m., preparing dinner. 

12:00 m. to 1:00 p. m., eating dinner. 

1:00 p. m. to 2:00 p. m., resting on bed or sofa. 
2:00 p. m. to 3:00 p. m., housework. 

3:00 p. m. to 4:00 p. m., receiving visitors, or 
visits. 

4:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m., exercising children. 
5:00 p. m. to 6:00 p. m., preparing supper. 

6:00 p. m. to 7:00 p. m., eating supper. 

7:00 p. m. to 7:30 p. m., housework. 

7:30 p. m. to 9:00 p. m., exercise and recrea¬ 
tion. 

This outline will indicate the way in which 
the ideal mother will ordinarily put in her time. 
The program for the ideal father would—largely 


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—follow that of the ideal mother, except where 
his work required a different division of time. 
The advantage of this program, is that it makes 
the life much easier than it would be without it. 
The program should be all written out and kept 
where it can be consulted at any time, and if 
peculiar conditions should require it occasionally 
to be changed, the changes can easily be worked 
in for those certain days when a change may be 
required. Each child should be taught how to 
make its program, which again would be—to a 
considerable extent—identical with the mother's 
program. This calls for three—or more—per¬ 
iods for exercise, which is very necessary to keep 
in perfect health. On days when there is no 
school, more exercise can be taken. 


HEALTH ECONOMY. 


Health economy consists in using everything 
—possible—in perfecting and adding to the 
strength of the body, no matter what it is. Never 
eat or drink anything that in any way will 
injure you. Avoid using alcohol, tobacco, tea 
and coffee, or any drinks, except pure water, 
milk and unfermented fruit juices of those fruits 
that are known to be healthful and nutritious. 
Avoid eating any kinds of flesh meats, fish and 
oysters. Abstain from eating any kinds of 
cooked cereals as the perfect cells and vitamines 
have been destroyed in all of these. Avoid 
using gum, candy, soft drinks and mineral 
waters. No minerals can be used in nourishing 
the body, except those organized minerals found 
in nuts, cereals, fruits and vegetables. Cook 
no cereals, fruits and vegetables that can be 
eaten raw. Cooking destroys the perfect cells 
and also the vitamines. If the water they are 
cooked in is poured off, you loose the mineral 
salts and most all of the sugar and oils. Use the 
water or evaporate it. 

Eat slowly and chew all solid foods till liqui¬ 
fied with the necessary saliva. Do not swallow 
seeds and pits of fruits when they are sharp 

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pointed or of any considerable size. The fruit 
skins should be chewed into small bits before 
swallowing. While the pulp and juice of many 
fruits are healthful, the seeds and skins of some 
are not good food. In these cases, remove both 
before eating. Do not experiment with foods 
you know nothing about. Use those you know 
from experience are good. 

Go to bed early so you will be fully slept out 
when the time arrives for getting up. From 
eight to nine hours of sleep should always be 
taken every night. Always have your sleep 
entirely completed before getting up in the 
morning. Save and economize yourself in every 
possible way. Do not by fear and worry destroy 
your nerve control and happiness. Have no 
debts. Be neither a borrower nor lender, ex¬ 
cept with your mutual friends and neighbors. 
Always feel that you have done all things well 
and that everything is and will be well. If you 
will follow all these instructions and live the 
perfect life, you will be constantly growing 
better, stronger, wiser, happier and more beauti¬ 
ful as the years pass. 


UNIVERSAL LOVE. 


Universal love is God's love. When we are 
deeply concerned for the welfare of all beings, 
animals as well as mankind, we are in this 
respect Godlike, and this Universal Love, spring¬ 
ing up in us displaces selfishness, and puts us in 
harmony with the immutable laws, by means of 
which all things exist, all harmonious actions are 
performed, producing the good that blesses all 
beings. 

If all people of all nations and races, were 
fully possessed of this love, all sickness, death 
and discord would soon be eradicated from the 
world. Everyone would become possessed of 
powers of which they now know nothing. We 
would then be able to pass—without death of 
our bodies—into the Astral World and explore 
all that exists there, and from there pass on into 
the Heavenly World and there be entertained 
by the angels. It is right living—obedience to 
all Natural Laws—that makes us clairvoyant, 
makes us Masters, Adepts, like Jesus of Naz¬ 
areth, capable of functioning in any of the 
worlds. For these reasons all should cultivate 
Universal Love, which destroys selfishness, 
greediness, gluttony and intemperance. 


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The healthy little child has this Universal 
Love, and manifests it when it plays with its 
pets, such as puppies, kitties and other pets. 
Its love for its parents, brothers, sisters and play¬ 
mates, is of this character. Its love is pure and 
beneficial to all who are present in its little 
world. The love of the parent for the child, is 
of the same character. All such love is above 
dissipation and selfishness. 

Our love should all be unselfish and pure as 
that of the little child. Grown up people 
should have this same pure, unselfish love. All 
other love is selfish love and leads to dissipation 
and death. Universal Love created the Uni¬ 
verse—in which we live, move and have our 
being—and sustains it. We also should help to 
perfect and sustain it by manifesting this Uni¬ 
versal Love. 


PERFECT HAPPINESS. 


Perfect happiness possesses us when every¬ 
thing is right, goes right and we are fully satisfied 
with all of our surroundings. The child at 
school—who has won first honors in all its 
classes, has received the highest possible grades 
in all of them, has performed all other duties 
completely and has in all ways and in every 
thing, both at home as well as at school, and on 
the way to and from school, has fully complied 
with all requirements, and knows and feels that 
it has done all of these things, and is highly 
complimented by its parents, teachers and all 
others who know of its high standing—may be 
said to manifest this perfect happiness. 

Grown-up persons—who have likewise per¬ 
formed all duties (according to their own con¬ 
sciences) and have done all of those things that 
the laws of nature, as well as the laws of the 
land, require of them, and who are free from all 
fear, worry and anxiety, and in addition to the 
foregoing, are fully satisfied that all is going well 
with them in every way—are perfectly happy. 

If both the child and the grown-up person 
can continue to feel thus fully satisfied—always 
all of the time—and have the right (ideal) way 

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of progressing—then we can say of them they are 
always perfectly happy. All of us should aim 
to reach this ideal way, and continue in it, with¬ 
out any halting or turning from it, in any way in 
the smallest degree. We should so live that we 
are always and at all times in an ecstatic state of 
happiness. This mental attitude is the best 
possible to promote our highest attainable 
physical as well as mental powers. By living 
the perfect life—elsewhere described in this 
book, we can place ourselves in this—greatly 
to be desired—attitude of Perfect Happiness. 
To secure this we must have perfect control of 
ourselves at all times. This condition can be 
attained and maintained. 


SIN. 

Sin is doing that which dissipates, destroys 
and brings disease and death upon us. All 
thoughts of our happiness and enjoyment, that 
are to be secured by depriving others of equal 
happiness and enjoyment, deprive us of real 
happiness and enjoyment, and are therefore 
sinful thoughts, and likewise all acts that deprive 
others of their true enjoyments, are sinful. 

Taking life from any animal—except in 
necessary defense of our own life—or that of 


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helpless beings—taking the property or labor of 
others without full compensation, whether by 
contract, theft or fraud, teaching false doctrines 
that cause people to die—whether taught know¬ 
ingly or ignorantly—exercising the sexual organs 
—except for lawful procreation—teaching the 
use of poisons and administering poisons as 
medicines, all tortures of either mind or body, 
failing to aid the unfortunate, withholding 
beneficial knowledge from people who are ready 
to receive it, holding more property than is 
necessary for the ordinary business and com¬ 
fortable and healthful living of the holder and 
his, or her, family, giving or taking bribes, eating 
flesh meats, being engaged in any line of business 
that grows, manufactures, distributes, or sells 
those things that are injurious to any person, 
as well as helping to advertise such injurious 
things, are sinful. 

In short, anything that is not beneficial to 
mankind, or other animals, if produced and dis¬ 
tributed by anyone, is sinful. Whatever in 
any way is injurious to the everlasting happiness 
of mankind and other animals, if produced, 
distributed, or used, is sin. Being an unpro¬ 
ductive person—when capable of doing useful 
work—is sinful. We believe that any person 
can easily decide as to what is sin. We advise 
all to avoid all of what we have listed and all 
other things that are similar and not beneficial 
in a substantial way. 


FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH. 


The Fountain of Youth is around and about 
and within you. All you have to do to drink at 
this fountain, is to avoid completely all forms of 
dissipation, avoid all leakages of vitality from 
yourself, as well as from your mind. Become 
complete master of yourself. Then you can 
completely control your body at all times—both 
day and night. Think only constructive, virtu¬ 
ous, perfect, harmonious and healthful thoughts. 
If evil thoughts enter your mind at once drive 
them out with good thoughts. Be master of 
yourself by knowing the truths that enable you 
to live the perfect life, and then will to live it, 
fearlessly. You are a child of God—a miniature 
God—and it is your duty to live in perfect 
harmony with the laws of Nature—God. This 
is the only way to be a happy man or woman, 
boy or girl. Believe in the truths we herein state, 
and know that the way we direct you to live, is 
the only way that will lead you to eternal life 
and everlasting happiness. Sleep like a child, 
as free from all fear, care and worry, for eight 
to nine hours each night. Eat the foods we 
direct in our menus when really hungry, as we 
have directed you to do in this book, and you 


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will soon note such an improvement in your 
body and mind, that you will know and believe 
fully, that you are enjoying all the powers of the 
fabled fountain of youth. Then to further help 
you on in this beautiful life, teach the doctrine 
to your brothers and sisters, and make them— 
too—happy and care free, and enable them to 
also enjoy the benefits of this wonderful foun¬ 
tain. When you have persued this course for a 
few years, you will surely know we teach the 
truth. The Ethereal Magnetic Fluid that sur¬ 
rounds you is a part of the Fountain of Youth. 
It is the Breath of Life. Drink in plenty of it, 
and you will grow stronger, wiser, better and 
more beautiful as the years pass. 


ETHEREAL MAGNETIC FLUID. 

The particles of all things—including our 
bodies—throughout the entire universe, are 
held together by means of an ethereal, magnetic 
fluid, which—in our ordinary condition—we can¬ 
not see. This is the medium through which 
light, sound and thought are constantly passing. 
This is why our minds have a wonderful effect 
on our bodies for weal or woe. The healthful 
state of the mind always builds up, perfects and 
strengthens the body. The mind by fear, worry 


152 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

and other forms of wrong and unwholesome 
thought, weakens, dissipates and destroys the 
body. 

We should feel that we are a part of the 
universe, and should act in harmony with it, 
as it is from this great life source, that we derive 
our health, strength and happiness. All ad¬ 
vanced thinkers now hold that animals—other 
than mankind—have souls, and while their 
bodies are different from ours, that they are 
distant relatives of ours, and that therefore we 
should refrain from killing them and eating 
their flesh. 

We are all God's children and should obey 
His Laws. To do this, is to be perfectly and 
perpetually happy. All wisely educated persons 
are in harmony with these immutable, perfect 
and self executing laws, and love to obey them. 
Ignorance leads to sin and death. Wisdom leads 
to life everlasting. 

The ancient East Indian people, called the 
morning sun's rays, the golden chariots of the 
Goddess—Ahanna—daughter of the sun, who 
drove them over the land and water, and through 
the sky, giving light, and life, and bringing 
happiness to all. We ought to think of this 
every morning, as all there is of life, health and 
happiness, is largely derived from the sun's 
rays—Ahanna's Golden Chariots. 


VIBRATIONS. 


Every thing we see, hear, taste, smell or 
feel, exists only by reason of vibrations. All 
matter—as we call it—is only force in the various 
degrees of vibration. The ether transmits light 
to us at a vibratory rate of 185,000 miles per 
second. Every part of us exists by reason of 
vibrations in the different parts of our bodies. 
As each individual has peculiarities, which give 
him or her, his or her personality, so each of us 
have our particular rates of vibrations. Where 
two persons vibrate at about the same rate, it 
is this that causes them to become agreeable to 
each other. In health, the vibrations are regular 
under the same conditions. In disease, the 
vibrations are irregular, and can often be made 
regular by exercise of the patient's own mind, 
through his or her nervous system. Where the 
diseased person has a desire to get well, and in 
any way is convinced that by doing a certain— 
harmless—thing, he or she will recover, a cure 
is usually effected. Any thing that will con¬ 
vince the patient—in such cases—that relief 
can be had by doing certain—harmless—things, 
will—in practically all cases—effect a cure. This 
being able to convince the patient that a cure 

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will be effected, through the patient's mind, 
sets up normal—healthy—vibrations in all parts 
of the body and is the beginning of restoration 
to health. 

A healthy person can in all cases of disease, 
greatly aid in the restoration of the healthy 
vibrations, by placing his hands on the patient 
with a strong intention of communicating these 
vibrations to the patient. When this is done by 
a trained Therapist, remarkable cures are often 
made. Belief of the patient—that he will be 
cured—produced by any means, will in all cases 
—eventually—set up the natural—healthful— 
vibrations. 


LIGHTNING. 

To be safe from lightning during a storm— 
if in the day time—shut windows and doors, so 
as to prevent air currents conducting the elec¬ 
tricity into and through your house. Keep 
away from all chimneys and all of the walls— 
isolating yourself—by sitting in a chair, or 
lying on a bed if in the night—having your chair 
or bed at least three feet from walls of the house 
or room in which you are. Keep as far as 
possible away from the chimney or any stove 


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connected with chimney or having pipe pro¬ 
jecting out of roof. Do not build fires until 
storm is past. Also keep away from telephones 
and radiators. 

If out in auto, or other conveyance, seek 
shelter at earliest chance and if compelled to 
remain out in storm, keep away from all high 
objects as trees, buildings, telegraph and tele¬ 
phone poles. If caught out in the open country, 
drive your team or auto into a hollow, or ravine, 
and lie as low down as possible, so that you will 
not be the highest object. Do not drive rapidly 
in an electric storm as you thus create a current 
in the air which is likely to make an easy passage 
for the electricity. Many have lost their lives 
in this way. Every section of the country each 
year sustains at least one or two deaths by elec¬ 
tricity—lightning—during storms, because those 
struck, did not observe above rules. Always 
get off of a load of hay, or a hay or other stack, 
or high object, as soon as possible when the 
storm reaches the neighborhood of the place 
where you are. It is very dangerous to not 
observe all these rules during any thunder¬ 
storm. Also keep away from barns and stables, 
as the grain, hay and stock, cause an upward 
current of air which draws the lightning. 


WHAT WE ARE—THE “I AM.” 


What are we?—is one of the great questions 
asked by many. The author’s answer may not 
be satisfactory to some. We are an intelligent 
being—a part of the universe in which we live— 
a part of the intelligence pervading our universe, 
a part of God—a part of Nature. While we are 
a separate being from God, we are a part of Him, 
and his thought manifests to us, through us, and 
through all beings, animals as well as mankind. 
All harmonious thoughts are from the Cosmic 
Mind—God’s Mind—as well as all wisdom. It 
is an old truth, often uttered by many who do 
not really seem to realize what it means, “That 
in God we live and move and have our being.” 
Being a part of Him, we are entirely dependent 
upon Him for our very existence. As the ma¬ 
terial part of the Universe—in which we live 
and move and have our being—is God’s body, 
so that part of the Universe we call our body— 
and through which we manifest our intelligence 
—is our material body. The “7 Am” is that 
intelligence that has in compliance with God’s— 
Nature’s—laws, built our bodies in which the 
“7 Am” lives and through which it manifests. 
“7 Am” is the being that by working in perfect 
harmony with the Natural Laws, can accomplish 


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almost anything. Each “I Am” can make its 
body perfect by working in perfect harmony 
with the law, and can progress in wisdom— 
without limit—if it wills so to do. It has but to 
determine that I Can and I Will and proceed— 
intelligently—to carry out any good work that 
is in perfect harmony with God’s plan, and suc¬ 
cess is certain. By this way of working, we 
become an active part of God and his ally and by 
means of this power, we are as capable as can be 
of accomplishing the work. This “I Am” is the 
intelligence that desires, and when the desire 
is natural it is in harmony with the immutable 
laws of Nature—God—and the thing desired 
will be accomplished in due time. 


AURA. 

The aura is the magnetic field that surrounds 
all animals—including human beings—and is 
said by those who claim to be clairvoyant, con¬ 
tains the vital, astral, mental and other invisible 
bodies, that surround and interpenetrate the 
physical body. The aura exhibits the mental 
states by means of the different colors. Clair¬ 
voyants, claim they can see these different 
bodies, which we have just described. That 


158 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

after death—we live first, in the astral body, and 
that at the death of the astral body, we continue 
to live in the mental—heavenly—body. Oc¬ 
cultism teaches, that about all who live the 
perfect life for a period of from ten to twenty— 
or more years—by this process—eventually— 
become clairvoyant, which means, being able to 
see things on the astral and mental—heavenly 
—planes, which surround and interpenetrate 
our physical plane—the earth—and can, without 
losing the use of the physical body—except 
while they make such visits. That when they 
propose to make such visits, they go to a room— 
and having notified their family and friends that 
for such lengths as they will be absent, that they 
will be in a state of trance—and that their 
bodies must not be disturbed, while their 
spiritual bodies are absent on the visits to the 
astral and mental—heavenly—planes, or worlds. 

There are many books published, giving the 
things that these clairvoyant persons have seen 
in their visits to the astral and mental—heaven¬ 
ly—planes. Clairvoyance is seeing with the 
mind and so many persons have thus explored 
the astral and heavenly—mental—planes, and 
reported about the same conditions as existing 
on those planes and, as all these reports by the 
different clairvoyants, give about the same 
descriptions, we believe that there probably are 


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such planes as they state in existence. Occultists 
claim that by living as we indicate in this book, 
most any person, after becoming physically 
perfect, can investigate all such matters by 
reason of their higher senses which they thus 
develop. To be able to visit at will in these 
planes, is worth more than all other earthly 
acquisitions. 


SEX ORGANS. 

All animals—excepting mankind—are con¬ 
trolled by instinct—the God within them—and 
from their birth to their death, never exercise 
their sex organs—except for procreation. For 
this reason, they never suffer from sexual disease 
or any weakness produced by sexual dissipation. 
This plainly shows what the law is that governs 
the sex organs. These animals are perfectly 
continent and virtuous. If mankind followed 
their example, the human race would soon be¬ 
come as continent and virtuous and likewise free 
from all sexual diseases and weaknesses. It 
would soon eliminate all disease and make per¬ 
fect civilization an easy piece of work. Whoso¬ 
ever looketh upon one of the opposite sex to 
lust after him, or her, has already committed 


160 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

adultery in his, or her, mind. Avoid this by 
having no adulterous thoughts in your mind. 
Intercourse for propagation only is right. The 
sex organs are only for the perpetuation of the 
species and are not for gratification of sensual 
desires. These organs also furnish material— 
properly prepared—for building the brain and 
other parts of the body, when not interfered with 
by dissipation. Avoid eating flesh meats of all 
kinds, using alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa 
and all other stimulants—except those foods we 
have recommended elsewhere—and keep your 
mind off of the sex organs at all times with a firm 
determination to fearlessly live the continent 
and virtuous life we here recommend and you can 
have absolute and perfect control of yourself, 
and rapidly outgrow any possible errors you may 
have made in regard to this matter. We here 
state the truth as to the only course to persue, 
if you desire to become perfect. Without full 
compliance with these directions, you cannot 
perfect yourself. 


AUTOLOGY. 

Autology is the science of self development 
and self healing. When we feel we are able to 
overcome all obstructions, and unfavorable 


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surroundings, and will to do this, and continue 
to possess this self assurance in all we do, we 
are using autology to its full extent. But very 
few persons are aware of the powers they possess 
and can use in perfecting their bodies, and in 
promoting their health, as well as in making 
themselves immune against disease. 

A person is almost seventy years old, and has 
been erroneously believing that, as he has nearly 
reached the limit of the fatal three score and ten 
years, that some ignorant religionist has tried 
to impose on the human race, he can no longer 
continue to live in health as, heretofore, on 
account of this adverse suggestion, generally and 
almost universally, believed to be true. But 
he begins to investigate, as to the truth or 
falsity of this proposition, and finds that many 
persons have lived and are now living way be¬ 
yond this period in good health and strength, 
and he, therefore says to himself, that if all of 
these people can live in health way beyond this 
period, I also can do it. He then and there is 
convinced that he can and will live way beyond 
this period and commences his new life and as he 
progresses, finds himself each day growing 
stronger, healthier and better in every way. 
By this self suggestion he is employing autology 
to a great advantage. 


162 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

After trying out a course of right living for 
several years, with the result that he is in better 
condition than he has been in for many years— 
by this demonstration—he is further encouraged, 
and is again using autology to a still better 
advantage. He then investigates further and 
finds that every part of his body is newly con¬ 
structed every seven years, and that if he lives 
a perfect life, he is sure all the time to be pos¬ 
sessed of a better body as time passes. This 
fact again coming up frequently in his mind, 
helps to convince him, that we are no older than 
we think we are. This again is an autological 
suggestion. 

The author of this book finds that about all 
of the medical books are in error on the subjects 
of both sex and longevity, and that it is possible 
for those persons who live a perfect life, to live 
as long as they wish to, if it be a million years. 

Let the dead bury the dead. Let the blind 
lead the blind. But travel in the straight and 
narrow way that leads to life everlasting. Seek 
and you will find. Knock and it shall be opened 
unto you. Ask and it shall be given unto you. 
For he that seeketh findeth. Unto him that 
knocketh it is opened. To him that asketh, it 
shall be given. When you pray, go into your 
room and close the doors and windows and draw 


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down the blinds, that all knowledge that might 
come to you through seeing with the eyes and by 
means of the bodily senses, may be shut off. 
Then hold your mind ready to receive all of the 
Cosmic—God—thoughts as they come to you, 
and you soon will be in possession of truths that 
you can in no other way secure. While they are 
coming from the Cosmic mind, they seem to arise 
in your mind. These new thoughts, you can be 
assured will give you knowledge of truths you 
did not before have. Use them in your life and 
you will be surprised how they will benefit you. 
Knowledge gained in this way —In the Silence — 
will greatly aid you in self development. Then 
persistently live the perfect life, as we describe 
it in this book, and you will soon see a wonderful 
improvement in yourself. 

While you are earnestly trying to live the 
perfect life, assure yourself that you are improv¬ 
ing. You will always be able, if you do your 
very best, to continually note improvements. 
Your gray hairs—if you have any—will begin 
to gradually disappear. Any wrinkles you may 
before have had, will also begin to leave your 
face. Your muscles will become stronger. Your 
mind will be better able to comprehend things. 
You will feel free from all care and be rid of all 
worry. In short, all your troubles of all kinds 
will leave you. You will enjoy life better than 


164 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

you ever didin your happiest child-hood. Doing 
and realizing all of the foregoing, is practicing 
autology. If members of your family are not 
in sympathy with you in doing this, do it without 
their knowledge, and after a short time, they will 
begin to note the improvements in your ap¬ 
pearance and make favorable suggestions, which 
will be very powerful in aiding your self sug¬ 
gestions. The author of this book has, in this 
way, by many favorable suggestions from entire 
strangers, been highly benefited. 


CARE OF CHILDREN. 


Children should be allowed no food—except 
the mother's milk—during the first ten to twelve 
months. At birth, the infant should be allowed 
a few hours sleep, before being washed or fed. 
The first feed from the mother's breast is the 
colostrum, which is intended by nature to cause 
the child's bowels to be cleansed. After the 
first day, the child should be fed from the 
mother's breasts at intervals of from two to three 
hours the first month, and after this, the inter¬ 
vals can be increased till a feed every three to 
four hours is arrived at. During the first year, 
no other food should be given than the mother's 
milk in all ordinary cases. Should the mother 
be incapable of yielding sufficient milk at the 
end of seven to eight months, then fresh goat's 
milk—freshly drawn and still warm, containing 
the vitamines—should be substituted. If this 
can not be secured, freshly drawn cow's milk may 
be used. 

All bottles and appliances for containing, or 
administering, milk to children should be kept 
perfectly clean. All milk of goat or cow, should 
be given before it cools, as the vitamines are 
lost by allowing it to cool and the child is thus 


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deprived of the best part of the milk. These 
vitamines are volatile and leave the milk as the 
animal heat passes away. No artificial heating 
can restore them. Therefore, draw the milk 
rapidly and at once pour it into the feed bottle 
in such quantities as the child will use at that 
feeding, and be sure to do this each time you 
feed the child. A goat, or cow, can be kept in 
a lot, or stable, near the house for this purpose. 

In cases where the mother—for any reason— 
cannot furnish the milk, the goat's milk is the 
next best substitute. It is to be drawn and 
given in small quantities to the baby while it is 
warm, and it should be fed slowly from a bottle, 
with an appliance that will allow the child to 
draw it slowly, as it would milk from its mother's 
breast. 

After the first year, the child can be gradually 
fed a very small amount of sweet fruits—avoid¬ 
ing such as have seeds and pits in them—using 
apples, bananas, pears, oranges and this kind of 
fruits, removing all seeds, cores and skins, before 
giving to the child. Peaches and plums, can be 
fed them, if the pits, seeds and skins are first 
removed. Our reason for advising this, with 
small children, is because much sickness and 
intestinal trouble often arises, when grapes, 
cherries, strawberries and this class of fruits are 


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given to them. After the child has reached the 
age of seven, and has been educated how to dis¬ 
card the pits, seeds and skins of the various fruits, 
there is much less danger. After the first year, 
small amounts of rolled oats and freshly ground 
whole-wheat, in its natural—uncooked—condi¬ 
tion, may be given them to chew well before 
swallowing. The fresh ground whole wheat, 
contains all of the bodily elements, including the 
vitamines, and is the best known food for man¬ 
kind. But during the second and succeeding 
years, up to the age of seven, the child's food 
should consist largely of freshly drawn goat's 
or cow's milk. Small amounts of whole-wheat 
bread—made from freshly ground whole wheat— 
and baked or roasted potato, both spread with 
pure dairy or creamery butter without salt or 
other seasoning, can be given to them. Teach 
them to chew all their solid food to a liquid, 
before swallowing. Fresh raw eggs can be given 
them on their bread. 

Do not feed them confectionery, flesh meats, 
fish, oysters, pickles, tea, coffee, spices, cookies, 
pies, cake, or any similar foods. Never feed 
them more than one kind of fruit at one time. 
They can eat roasted potato and bread and milk 
at one meal. Or oatmeal and bread and milk. 
Or ground whole-wheat flour and milk and bread 


168 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

and a small amount of fresh butter can also be 
used with these articles. Pure unrefined sugar 
and honey can be mixed with their whole-wheat 
flour and oatmeal, as these sweets are natural 
sweets. Pure maple syrup may be spread on 
their bread, and pure maple sugar in very small 
amounts—with the cereals above named—can 
be given to them. If the child will eat the rolled 
oats and whole-wheat flour, uncooked, and with¬ 
out any honey, or sugar, so much the better. 

The milk should be taken from a bottle with 
such an appliance as will allow it to be well mixed 
with saliva. Most of the health foods in our 
menus can be used, always rather under¬ 
feeding than overfeeding the child. Do not 
have him eat above four to five times in a day. 
Feed him on the simple combinations we have 
suggested, and see that he chews his food into a 
liquid before swallowing it. After the seventh 
year, children can begin to accustom themselves 
to the foods upon which older people live the 
ideal life, except that all young and growing 
children need as much of the fresh milk as they 
can thoroughly digest and assimilate. They 
should be kept from eating between meals, 
except small quantities of fresh ripe sweetish 
fruits, except when the fruits with more acid 
in them can be easily digested. Unless their 
activity is very great, and they are really hungry, 


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not above three meals should be taken each day, 
after they are above seven. While grown up 
people are in most cases better off with only 
about two meals each day, a child should have 
three. 

Within an hour after the child is up in the 
morning, he usually will be hungry, and break¬ 
fast should then be taken, with dinner about 
eleven to one, and supper between six and seven. 
Children should be taught to eat slowly, and 
masticate thoroughly all of their food. As soon 
as they have eaten enough, encourage them to 
cease eating, that they may acquire temperance 
at the commencement of life. Overfeeding 
children is even worse than underfeeding them. 
If they eat slowly and chew their food thorough¬ 
ly, they will not usually overeat. The greatest 
danger is that they will eat too fast and by a 
failure to chew the food well, will cause stomach 
and bowel disturbances. 

The only drinks allowed them should be pure 
fresh water and pure fresh milk. Above all do 
not allow them to eat flesh meats, fish, oysters, 
spices, pickles, pies, cake or any rich or highly 
seasoned foods. Do not allow common salt or 
pepper on any of their foods. The ideal menus, 
as given elsewhere, are the correct foods for all 
persons above seven years old. 


170 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

During the summer season and in warm 
countries, the child's clothing should be light and 
loose, so that air can freely circulate about its 
body. The legs, feet, arms and hands should be 
free from clothing in very warm weather. In 
cold weather, enough clothing should be worn 
to keep the child comfortable. Children should 
not be exposed to either extremely cold or hot 
weather, and during the middle of the day in 
summer, should be kept in the shade and when 
the weather becomes extremely cold in winter, 
they should be kept in comfortable, well venti¬ 
lated rooms. 

Children should have plenty of sleep. All 
children under seven years, should take two to 
three hours of sleep in the middle of the day. 
After that age, they are usually better off with 
from nine to ten hours sleep between 8 p. m. and 
6:30 a. m. Children above seven, are usually 
in school most of the time, and will not need the 
extra sleep. 

Each child, same as each grown-up person, 
should have an entire bed to itself, so that it will 
not be disturbed in any way by a bed-fellow. 
Four or five separate children's beds can be 
placed in any fair sized room, with plenty of 
space for parents to pass between them in 
attending to them. 


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Each child is to be bathed all over at least 
once each day, the evening usually being the 
best time. All sleeping rooms should be well 
ventilated, even in the coldest weather. 

Each child should each day be taken through 
a set program of regular exercises, besides such 
as it gets in playing. This extra exercise should 
be such, as will equally develop all the muscles. 
To exercise their voices, they should be required 
each day to recite—in loud tones—as much as 
twenty to thirty lines of poetry or prose. They 
also should be made to sing a few songs, of 
satisfactory sentiments each day. Always keep 
them in a happy and contented mood. Rule 
them by love, and have them perform all tasks 
because they wish to. By complimenting them, 
and making all their surroundings pleasant, you 
will wonderfully help to improve them in every 
respect. Never scold or censure them. If they 
need prompting, do it as kindly and affectionate¬ 
ly as possible. Above all things, keep them feel¬ 
ing good. Make them as happy as it is possible, 
and forever after, they will remember you and 
what you did for them to help them to be good 
and happy. 

Between the ages of seven and ten years, the 
child should be taught that if it, in any way, 
interferes with its sex organs, that it will keep 


172 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

it from becoming a well developed man or 
woman. The parent, or teacher, will have to 
approach the child at the right time, and under 
the right circumstances—in regard to this. 
What the sex organs are, when and how they 
develop, and their use, is a subject that should be 
taught in all schools to children of all ages. 
The great truth, that no person, either boy or 
girl, man or woman, can develop into a perfect 
person, who in any way interferes with these 
organs, must be taught, if the human animal is 
to again return to a normal condition. Because, 
for untold ages, this most important of all 
knowledge, has been kept from the human 
animal, humanity has been degraded largely 
to a state of idiocy. As far as the author of this 
book has been able to learn, in a long period of 
investigation, mankind is the only animal that 
transgresses the laws of nature in regard to the 
sex organs. As a consequence, mankind are the 
only animals, that do not develop generally into 
perfect animals of their kind. Man is the only 
animal that does many things that only an idiot 
or insane person might do. Man is the only 
animal that knowingly shortens his life by using 
poisons, because it is fashionable to do so. The 
only animal, that after being warned not to, 
commits suicide. That does thousands of things 
that are injurious to him, and then boasts that 


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173 


he is lord of creation. Only a very few human 
beings ever return to The Father's House —live 
in perfect harmony with all of the laws of 
Nature—God—become fully clairvoyant—re¬ 
ceive the knowledge of the absolute truth. To 
become possessed of this truth, is to be reborn— 
to enter in at the narrow gate—to be in heaven— 
to realize fully that we are God's—Nature's 
children. This book is being written, to en¬ 
lighten the human race, and by getting them to 
live the perfect life, for a series of years, to put 
them in possession of their inheritance, by get¬ 
ting them back to The Father's House. 


FASTING. 


Fasting is going without food and using no 
drink, except pure fresh water. The object to 
be attained by the fast, is to rid the body of 
impure matter. This is necessary in curing 
many diseases. During a fast, the lymphatic 
vessels absorb all useless substances, as local 
inflammations, fistulas, unnecessary fat—adipose 
tissue—and conduct this injurious and useless 
matter into the blood, and by means of certain 
glands, the liver and kidneys, and other organs, 
it is changed into healthy blood for use in main¬ 
taining different tissues of the body. That part 
which cannot be so converted and used, is 
eliminated from the body by the skin, kidneys, 
or other eliminative organs, thus removing all 
unnatural collections from the body. Fasting 
is nature's way of getting rid of injurious 
substances. A fast of from one to three days, 
will—in many cases—remove fistulas—piles—as 
well as restore to the faster a natural appetite. 

Persons have fasted as long as forty to fifty 
days in numerous cases, with great benefit in 
removing diseases of various kinds. One man is 
reported to have fasted for ninety days and re¬ 
duced his useless flesh to the amount of seventy- 
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175 


five pounds. Any person can—without danger 
—fast for five to six days and be benefited 
greatly by the fast. It is the only way to reduce 
surplus flesh, and remove diseases originating 
from impure blood, as rheumatism, gout, run¬ 
ning sores, dispepsia, skin diseases—not caused 
by parasites—Bright's disease, diabetes, dropsy, 
paralysis, and in short, almost any of the chronic 
diseases. For many minor diseases, as colds 
and the like, a short fast of from two to four 
days, will easily remove all of the trouble. Any¬ 
one can safely fast for from three to six days, 
without any need of a doctor. If a much 
longer fast is to be taken, we advise it under the 
care of any well informed doctor. The longer 
the fast has extended, the greater the care to be 
exercised in breaking it. 

Break a fast gently by use of a small quantity 
of freshly drawn milk—not above one-fourth 
of a pint at first feeding—this to be taken very 
slowly and each teaspoonful of it to be worked 
about in the mouth until well insalivated before 
swallowing. As you have salivary glands, 
stomach, intestines, liver, pancreas, kidneys and 
other glands and organs that have not been used 
to work for many days, be very careful in starting 
them up again. The rest they have had—after 
a few days careful feeding—will return them to 
their work with greatly increased vigor. Take 


176 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

the same amount of milk as before directed every 
two hours the first day and increase the amount 
to half a pint at a time the second day. On the 
third day a very light meal of the roasted white 
potato may be given in addition to the milk. 
On the fourth day you can add to the roasted 
potato a small piece of toasted whole-wheat 
bread spread with sweet cream and one raw egg. 
After this, very slowly and carefully return to 
our ideal menus. As after breaking the fast you 
will have a great craving for food, be very careful 
to eat sparingly for several weeks, after which 
your hunger can again guide you. 

In breaking a fast, avoid all meats, fish, 
cheese, hard-boiled eggs, fried eggs and all highly 
seasoned foods, as cake, pies, puddings. Use 
nothing but sweet milk—the fresher the better— 
the first two days, after which one or two raw 
fresh eggs may be added. In all fasts that do 
not exceed six days, after the first day, light 
meals of such foods as are given in our menus, 
can be used, always being very careful to chew 
all solid foods into a liquid before swallowing. 
After any fast, be very careful to not overeat, 
and never eat till last meal taken has been 
thoroughly and completely digested. 

These short fasts, cure many diseases, and 
if the first short fast does not completely cure, 


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after about ten days of eating, take a second 
fast of a day or two longer duration—than the 
first—and this second fast will—quite likely— 
effect a permanent cure. 

Be sure and take your usual amount of 
exercise during the fast. Also take a daily 
bath to help eliminate the poisons. Whether 
thirsty or not, drink as much as three to four 
pints of water each day. Avoid all other 
drinks. Use no medicines, coffee, tea, fruit 
juices, soft drinks, taking nothing but the pure 
fresh water in half glasses at a time. Ordinarily 
you will not be bothered much by thirst, but 
even if not thirsty, take as near as possible 
three pints of water each day, as it has a very 
fine cleansing effect in washing out the stomach 
and intestines. 

After the first day or two of the fast, your 
bowels will not likely move to any extent. If 
there are accummulations in your bowels, they 
may move at least once each day during the 
short fast. But this will be so much the better, 
as it will help to purify the system and you do 
not need to worry about this. If you have been 
constipated, you will find that the drinking of 
the water and abstaining from food, will soon 
overcome all of this constipation. Anyone who 
has never tried these short fasts, will be sur- 


178 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

prised at the health and increased strength they 
will get from them. 

In connection with the short fasts, we advise 
all persons never to eat before they have a good 
hunger appetite. Many persons are now eat¬ 
ing only two meals a day, usually leaving break¬ 
fast out. A few find one meal each day sufficient. 
The legend is, that the ancient Greeks in de¬ 
veloping their ablest of warriors, only ate one 
meal each day. Another legend is, that the 
strongest man in India, ate only one handful of 
raw wheat each day. 

After the first day of fasting, the loss in 
weight will not usually be above one pound a 
day, so if you have ten to twenty pounds of fat 
on you, you will have no trouble for at least as 
many days, if necessary. Every particle of 
food above what is necessary and can be per¬ 
fectly digested, is so much additional poison 
to be disposed of. Always stop eating when you 
have had enough, and never eat any food to 
save it. You can not afford the injury it will 
do you. You are much better off by eating less 
food than you need, instead of too much. 


MILK CURE. 


The milk cure consists in confining the food 
taken to pure fresh milk for a certain period, 
usually from two weeks to three months. This 
is the best possible cure for thin, anemic patients. 
Milk being the perfect food, containing all the 
bodily elements in the right proportion, can al¬ 
ways be digested and assimilated by any patient. 
Before commencing the milk diet, a short fast 
of from one to three days, should be taken, to 
allow the stomach and intestines to clear them¬ 
selves of all other foods, so that no acids in them 
will curdle the milk and produce objectionable 
effects. 

When ready for this diet, begin by taking a 
half pint every two to three hours, or as often as 
hungry. Each mouthful as taken, should be 
held in the mouth until well mixed with saliva, 
before being swallowed. From ten to fifteen 
minutes should be taken in consuming each half 
pint, and care should be taken to avoid drinking 
the milk down in a hurry. 

One on the milk diet will usually sleep well, 
and will not need to get up during the night to 
take any of the milk. Patient usually will sleep 
from 9:30 p. m. to 6:30 a. m. If patient feels 


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sleepy any time during the day, a nap usually 
will be beneficial. Take your daily bath and as 
much exercise as is agreeable, or the usual work 
may be sufficient exercise. Patient can usually 
judge as to this. 

No fixed amount is to be given, except that 
patient take it as often as it is relished. Amount 
usually used will vary from two to six quarts per 
day. Have the milk warm if you can take it 
that way, and if not, take it at about a tempera¬ 
ture of seventy degrees Fahrenheit. If the 
appetite for the milk should fail, three to four 
hours after the last glass, sip a glass of lemonade 
or eat some slightly acid fruit, which will usually 
at the end of four to five hours from taking, re¬ 
new the appetite for the milk. The lemonade is 
to be preferred to any fruit, as it has the best 
possible appetizing effect, and is least liable to 
produce any undesirable disturbance. When 
you enter on this diet, persist in it and do not 
mix anything else with it. It is the simplest 
and most effective remedy known for restoring 
vitality to anemic persons, and will in most 
cases cure many diseases that originate from im¬ 
pure blood. This diet, while easily digested and 
assimilated, has enabled many athletes to de¬ 
velop great powers in strength. Remember that 
when you have the milk diet, you have the best, 
as well as the purest diet known. The author, 


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181 


on about two quarts of milk per day, did ten 
hours of harvest work each day for a period of 
about two weeks, when he was a very young 
man, binding his beats on time and performing 
as much labor as older men, living upon a mixed 
diet of roast beef, chicken and all the rich foods 
that are usually supplied during harvest seasons. 
So you need not worry about not getting enough 
nourishment, when you are on this diet. In 
practically all cases, from two to four weeks on 
the milk diet will be sure to produce wonderful 
effects. Claims are made by some, that above 
a pound a day is made in weight. 

Use the best milk you can get, and use it 
cream and all. Do not be afraid to use it 
liberally, if it agrees with you, which it is sure 
to do. If it is not relished at any time, live for a 
day or so, on a fruit diet. Do not mix a milk 
and fruit diet. Allow at least three to four 
hours to elapse, after taking the last glass of 
milk, before taking any fruit. Also allow the 
same time to elapse, after taking fruit, before 
again taking the milk. You need no doctor to 
advise, in taking the milk diet, unless you think 
that it might help you. 


A PERFECT MAN. 


A perfect man is one who obeys all of Nature’s 
laws. His wisdom is so complete that he knows 
the Absolute Truth. He knows that to fail in 
obeying the perfect, unchangeable, self executing 
laws of Nature—God—leads to death, and that 
to obey them perfectly, leads to everlasting life 
and perfect happiness. 

He maps out the best possible program— 
under his circumstances—and follows it as near 
as possible. He will not destroy the life of any 
animal, no matter what it may be, except it 
becomes necessary in defending himself and those 
under his protection. He uses no animal food, 
excepting eggs, milk, cream, butter and cheese. 
His food is selected from the cereals, edible nuts, 
vegetables, and edible fruits, to which he adds 
eggs, milk, cream, butter and cheese. He is not 
willing to be a party to wilful murder, that he 
may secure the flesh of his younger brothers and 
sisters. 

He may be any height and any weight, pro¬ 
portioned to our scale of heights and weights as 
given in this book. He may be any color and of 
any race. His strength and activity—both 
physical and mental—will be great. His move- 
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188 


ments will be graceful. His voice will be musi¬ 
cal. His dealings with all beings—both man¬ 
kind and other animals—will be kind and 
sympathetic. In all of his trade deals, he will be 
just. His language will be easily understood by 
all. All who become acquainted with him will 
respect him. 

All parts of his body being perfect, and in 
perfect purity and health, he will have no un¬ 
pleasant odors about him. He will use no 
poisons of any kind either medicines, alcohol, 
tobacco, coffee, tea or other poisons. His only 
drinks will be pure water, milk and pure, fresh— 
unfermented—fruit juices of fruits that are not 
poisonous. He will select such perfect foods as 
fresh drawn milk, freshly ground, whole-wheat 
flour, fresh nut kernels, fresh vegetables and 
fruits, and as often as possible will eat them raw, 
as Nature has prepared them, in order to get 
the perfect cells and all the vitamines. He will 
eat no more of such foods as he selects and uses, 
than is necessary to keep him in perfect health. 

Morally and religiously, he will bear all the 
burdens of the poor and unfortunate his means 
will allow, he devoting all his time—not neces¬ 
sary for sleep and recreation—in acquiring 
means by following occupations that create 
necessary food, drink, clothing and habitations 
for humanity, as well as those that educate 


184 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

people in necessary knowledge and aid in the 
distribution of the various necessary articles 
needed in living a perfect life. 

He teaches his brothers and sisters—the 
human race—how to become perfect, and live 
perfectly happy lives, and how to help in spread¬ 
ing the doctrine of the brother-sister-hood of 
humanity. He asks nothing for himself, that 
he does not equally share with humanity. As 
fast as he acquires new knowledge—that is 
beneficial to all of humanity—he imparts it to 
those ready to receive it. He is a true friend 
to all humanity in the fullest sense. 

He dresses plainly and neatly. He avoids 
offending anyone, as far as possible in his living 
the perfect life. He is constantly receiving new 
and beneficial knowledge, from the great source 
of all things, and for this reason, is continually 
improving. As there is no limit to the advance¬ 
ment of those who persist in living the perfect 
life, we cannot now say to what heights of 
knowledge this perfect life will eventually lead 
him, but know that every day will bring added 
improvement. For this reason, the perfect life 
is one continual and happy journey. 

If married, he is the ideal husband and 
father. He is the kind of a man that Jesus 
called the good man. And the kind that Jesus 


A PERFECT MAN—A PERFECT WOMAN 185 

referred to as a just man made perfect. His 
perfect life, makes him a perfect man. He is 
perfect as his father in heaven is perfect. His 
life is the prayer that the will of the father in 
heaven be done on earth. He desires only what 
the father desires, which is perfection for all. 
This man and the father are one. 


A PERFECT WOMAN. 

A perfect woman is the same as a perfect 
man, except that she has finer feelings and is a 
more affectionate being. For these reasons, she 
has a greater influence in moulding the senti¬ 
ments of those about her. We can safely say, 
she has all the virtues of the perfect man, and 
positive magnetic powers with which she can 
influence, often the most obstinate evil doers, 
and turn them in the way they should go. 

The most influential public speaker—that 
the author of this book has had the pleasure of 
listening to—was a woman. She drew crowds 
such as none of the men speakers ever did, and 
held them in the closest attention during 
speeches, lasting for hours, and sent them away 
convinced of the truths she was trying to im- 
impress upon them. 


186 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

All receptions, without the presence of 
women, are cold and uninteresting affairs. A 
home without a mother, wife or daughter, is a 
poor one at best. As athletes, women excel 
all men when agility and grace of movements are 
considered. They have finer voices, both for 
speaking and singing, than men. Hence the 
perfect woman has all we have here said, added 
to all the good things we have said about the 
perfect man. And added to all that and the 
foregoing, is the beauty of perfect mother-hood. 
No man—who has not raised a family—can 
fully know the graces and virtues of a perfect 
woman. Because of all these things, women can 
be glad that they are women. 

The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the 
world. Susan B. Anthony started and persisted 
in a movement, that has now freed the women of 
all of the principal countries of the world. She 
stands out as the greatest woman of all times. 
Next to her, is Joan of Arc, who saved France 
from annihilation. 


IDEAL FATHER. 

The ideal father must possess every require¬ 
ment of the perfect man, and must be to his 
wife an ideal lover, with that divine love that 


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187 


will only do her the most lasting and highest 
good, and in short, he must be the ideal lover— 
one who has only lasting and permanent benefits 
for his chosen sweet-heart. He must be a per¬ 
fect model of the highest and purest in all 
virtue. No sexual intercourse must be thought 
of, except when necessary for procreation. This 
he can be, if he is living the perfect life and has 
become a perfect man, and of course his wife 
should be a perfect woman and the ideal mother. 
Remember that both the perfect man and per¬ 
fect woman do not allow or have thoughts of 
sexual dissipation. If each has plenty of good 
and useful work to do, during all of the waking 
hours, and sleeps in his or her bed alone, with 
the firm determination, that nothing sensual 
shall be allowed, both will remain absolutely 
pure, and neither will need to torture the body 
in any way to maintain their perfectly virtuous 
condition. It is such persons only that should 
become the fathers and mothers of the future 
human race. 

Both husband and wife should equally own 
and enjoy all of their property, both real and 
personal. It is this perfect married life only, 
that leads to happiness on the part of both. 
These parents should bring up their children in 
as high a state of virtue as they maintain for 
themselves. 


IDEAL MOTHER. 


The ideal mother is possessed of all the 
qualifications of the perfect woman, described 
elsewhere in this book, and besides leaves nothing 
undone in any way that can help to make her 
perfect as a mother in every sense of the word. 
Her love for her husband and children, is of that 
pure and divine nature that only ideal women 
can fully comprehend. She risks her life for her 
children, and after they are born, she watches 
over them and works for them unceasingly. 
She shapes the future course of her sons and 
daughters. She is as kind and loving to her 
husband all through life, as she was during 
courtship. She never ceases to be deeply 
interested in all her children during her entire 
life. She is an ornament to society and ever 
watchful to see that no occasion is lost for the 
betterment of all children. She is the guardian 
angel of—not only her own home—but of all 
homes. And now since she has been enfran¬ 
chised, she will still do greater things for the 
home and for humanity in general. Even before 
her enfranchisement, she brought about prohibi¬ 
tion by exerting her influence on her husband, 
sons and father. There is no service so hon- 


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189 


orable, noble and grand as that which the ideal 
mother renders to humanity. She is the guide 
that leads the way to the higher life, and makes 
it possible for humanity to advance in civiliza¬ 
tion. No real home can exist without the ideal 
mother. 


LONGEVITY. 


All persons should work to perfect them¬ 
selves. As soon as they have mastered them¬ 
selves, they should begin teaching others to do 
the same thing. Men and women should perfect 
themselves before they marry, so that on becom¬ 
ing parents, they can at once begin teaching their 
children to live perfect lives. This alone would 
soon people the earth with perfect people. 

All people desire to live the perfect life, but 
have never before this, had it fully explained to 
them, so they could comprehend it, and see the 
great beauty in living it. They have been 
taught that seventy years is the limit of human 
life, except in a few exceptional cases, when it has 
extended a few years beyond this. Therefore 
they have adopted the maxim, “Eat, drink and 
be merry for to-morrow you die.” It has— 
erroneously—been taught that all of us are con¬ 
demned to die, because some remote ancestor of 
the Jewish Race ate some forbidden fruit. But 
now science comes and teaches us that if we live 
the perfect life, we can at least live as long as we 
desire on this earth. So now it is worth while 
to try out the perfect life, and as many do not 
know that they can live for thousands of years— 

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LONGEVITY 


191 


if they live right—we here and now truthfully 
say they can. 

Jesus taught this doctrine when he said only 
a few found the “strait” gate that leads to life. 
His words are, “Strait is the gate, and narrow 
is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there 
be that find it.” By this he meant that right 
living in all things, would be rewarded by ever¬ 
lasting life. 

It has only recently been discovered, that 
human beings have lived on the earth for many 
millions of years. That at various times, the 
people who lived perfect lives, lived way beyond 
one thousand years. A few of those who lived 
perfect lives, according to one historical account, 
lived beyond ten thousand years. Only about 
ten thousand years ago, history teaches that 
people on the Island of Atlantis—before it 
sank—lived to the ages of 1200 years. The 
Bible says that Methuselah lived nine hundred 
and sixty-nine years, and that many other 
persons lived beyond nine hundred years. 

In modern times many persons have lived 
way beyond one hundred years, some to 180 and 
a number to 150. Thomas Parr of England, 
lived to 152, and was killed by being fed rich 
foods at the king’s palace, where he had been 
taken, because he was a curiosity. His death 


192 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

was caused by rich foods and drinks which made 
him die of apoplexy. The post mortem ex¬ 
amination of his body showed that the cartilages 
of his breast-bone at his age, had not ossified 
as it usually does between the ages of forty and 
fifty, but was still the same as in a young man, 
and none of the vital organs had in any way dete¬ 
riorated. This case shows that right living will 
maintain a youthful condition of the body as 
long as the right living continues. 

Parr lived in the country where he had pure 
foods, fresh air, healthful exercise and was free 
from care and worry. He—undoubtedly—lived 
largely on a vegetable, cereal, fruit, egg and milk 
diet. His is an accidental case of longevity. 

As long as a person is living the perfect life, 
his cells will constantly be renewed, and even 
made better. The old idea that the body will 
wear out—no matter how perfect a life we live— 
is not the truth. It is eating inharmonious 
foods, too much food, eating before last meal has 
been digested, using various poisons, as alcohol, 
tobacco, tea, coffee, poisonous medicines, vine¬ 
gar, salt, spices, flesh meats, fish, oysters and 
many other injurious foods and drinks, as well 
as living as a condemned criminal with a limit 
fixed as to when we must die, as well as sexual 
dissipation, fear, worry and many other things, 
that cause us to grow old and die. We can now 


LONGEVITY 


193 


avoid all these numerous things that shorten 
life and cause death. 

Eating flesh meats, fish and oysters are sure 
to cause impure blood and so shorten life. All 
these meats are difficult to digest, and are largely 
composed of waste material that has to be elimi¬ 
nated at a great loss of vital force. Besides 
these objections, there is always danger that 
some part will reach the intestines undigested, 
where it will decay and form ptomain poison 
and thus destroy life. Flesh meat can only 
be digested in the stomach, but vegetables, 
grains, fruits, nuts, milk, eggs, butter and cheese 
can largely be digested in the intestines after 
leaving the stomach. The gastric juice of the 
stomach is the only thing that can digest lean 
meat, and if any of this is passed undigested into 
the intestines, it rapidly decays and forms the 
deadly ptomain poison which soon causes death. 
Every time you eat meat you are sanctioning the 
murder of the animals, whose flesh you eat and 
this crime is often punished in this way. It is 
claimed that the greatest cause of leprosy is a 
fish diet. All animals living in the water are 
largely carnivorous, and this makes both fish, 
oysters and shell fish, a less desirable thing to 
eat than animals feeding on grain and grass. 
All meat is a second-hand food, and what few 
cells you get out of it are second-hand cells, and 


194 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

if you use a carnivorous animal for food, you 
get third-hand cells. No carnivorous animal 
will eat the flesh of another carnivorous animal, 
because instinctively they know about the poor 
quality of such food. Again, commercial meats 
are doubly dangerous on account of decay and 
preservatives used. If you must use meats, 
kill the animals and use the meat at once, before 
the poisons have time to form. In this way you 
get rid of at least two of the dangers. 

The mind—when the mental attitude is right 
on the ideal foods—constantly aids in building 
up the wornout cells, and thus works to keep the 
body in a perfect condition. Elsewhere in this 
book we give you other instructions, to aid you 
in perfecting your body, and maintaining it in a 
perfect condition. 

Do not think you must die, because some 
ignorant persons tell you that death is sure to 
overtake you. You can perfect your body by 
following out our directions, and as time passes, 
become really younger and stronger, more 
beautiful and better, wiser and happier, by living 
the perfect life. Let nothing keep you from 
doing this. To do this is the only thing worth 
doing, and the only thing that will make you 
everlastingly happy. Commence this perfect 
life and persist in living it for ten years, and you 
will never desire to live otherwise. 


LONGEVITY 


195 


A feeble effort of a few days, or a few weeks, 
or a few months, will not be long enough to 
fairly demonstrate what pleasure there is in it. 
The first few months, will be a fierce struggle 
with appetites, passions and perhaps other in¬ 
fluences—but by persisting for at least a year— 
or two—you will begin to notice good and sub¬ 
stantial results. As soon as you conquer your¬ 
self—so that you are complete master of your 
body, and not your body master of you—as is 
usually the case, you will have won out. Re¬ 
member when you live the perfect life, you have 
everything that anyone can wish for. When a 
piece of whole-wheat bread, is more enjoyable— 
than any other food ever was—you have an 
appetite you can derive real pleasure from. You 
are not confined to just whole-wheat bread, in 
living the perfect life but can each day enjoy 
about five to six different kinds of the specified 
foods. 

The real enjoyment is in being more alive 
than ever before. All your bodily senses be¬ 
come wonderfully acute, and you develop several 
new senses that you knew little about before. 
In short you become what is called clairvoyant, 
and can see what you may wish to, in the astral 
world as also in the heavenly world without 
dying. In this condition, which is mankind's 
natural condition, you live in three worlds at 


196 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

the same time. All animals, other than man¬ 
kind, are in this happy state. This is what 
Jesus called heaven and paradise. Commercial¬ 
ism, greediness, sexual dissipation and gluttony, 
all are founded upon ignorance and upheld by it, 
and all who think they profit by it, soon loose 
their lives. The wise ones discard all these, and 
live the perfect life that continues everlastingly. 
The perfect life is the only life worth living. We 
therefore—again—say, live the perfect life. 


NARROW WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE. 


The narrow way to eternal life is as follows: 
Live in perfect harmony with all mankind and 
with all living beings, both physical and spiritual. 
Be able to sleep perfectly each night for eight to 
nine hours, getting up in the morning when com¬ 
pletely rested. Then follow your ideal program 
as we have indicated in this book. Be sure to 
take plenty of physical and mental exercise each 
day, and always so as to fully develop all 
muscles and mental faculties. Manage in this 
to be perfectly happy in all the work you do and 
exercise you take. While you gradually in¬ 
crease the activity from day to day, always 
manage to do so without any exhausting effects. 
Never be worried about anything. Enjoy your¬ 
self all you can in all you do. Be as free from 
care and worry as a healthy boy or girl that is 
full of life and thinks of nothing but the eternal 
now. The author of this book, likes to call this 
condition ecstatic—a perfect state of happiness. 
When you are good and hungry, eat one of the 
menus we have given in this book, as we have 
directed, chewing all foods into a liquid form 
before swallowing, and sipping your water, milk, 
soup, or fruit juice. Always stop when you have 


198 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

eaten in this way enough to fairly satisfy your 
hunger. If you eat slowly, the plain foods we 
have indicated, and in the combinations we have 
directed, you will know when you have had 
enough. Amount taken at one meal, should not 
exceed two pints in quantity, which is to include 
both drinks and other foods. Better always be 
on the safe side by eating rather less than too 
much. 

Avoid attending exercises in poorly ventilated 
auditoriums, halls, or churches, as the breath of 
the numerous persons there, is bad to take into 
your lungs. All such public rooms should be 
well ventilated, so that offensive breath of the 
diseased persons attending, will be rapidly 
carried out of the room. Of course, you will 
always attend to having plenty of fresh air in 
your rooms. 

Your voice should be exercised every day as 
we have indicated under Larynx and Throat. 
Be sure to read, sing and speak for at least half 
an hour each day. As often as you feel like it, 
laugh heartily. This is an excellent exercise. 
Manage to increase the amount of your work, 
or exercise as you progress, and do it without 
having yourself feel tired. A run of from a 
quarter of a mile to a half of a mile each day, is 
a very fine exercise. This sends blood to all 


NARROW WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE 199 

parts of the body and has a highly beneficial 
effect in strengthening the heart, lungs and all 
parts of the body. The narrow way is not 
difficult to follow, and will yield much more 
real enjoyment than the broadway, as it is 
called. The narrow way eliminates all dissipa¬ 
tion, and by having you live a life true to nature, 
enables you to be free from all of the sickness 
that follows those who dissipate, and pay no 
attention to the laws of health. If you persist 
in this narrow way we indicate, you will all the 
time grow more beautiful, stronger, wiser, 
better and happier as the years pass. As you 
progress, you will constantly be learning new 
things of great value to you. When you live 
the perfect life, there is no limit to your enjoy¬ 
ment. As your senses become keener, and new 
ones develop, you will without effort, be able to 
see in the hidden worlds about you, such as the 
astral and heavenly. This you can do without 
sickness, pain or death. The perfect life leads 
to full clairvoyance. 


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A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 


WORLD GOVERNMENT. 

The whole world should be under one govern¬ 
ment and that a government of the people, by 
the people and for the people of all races, both 
men and women being equally entitled to share 
in this government. All commercialism must be 
dispensed with and all supplies bought and dis¬ 
tributed by the government. All labor must be 
equally divided among the people and each 
person must be required to do his or her part. 
This will forever do away with all war, jealousy, 
crime of all kinds, and secure perfect happiness 
for all at all times. By this method, no one 
would have to work above six hours during any 
day. 

This world government would not permit 
sale of poisons of any kind, and it would prevent 
all forms of dissipation, and require each person 
to be registered and have a definite place of 
residence. No one would be permitted to 
travel, except as arranged by this government, 
and all travelers would have to have with them 
for identification, certificates of the proper 
officers to enable them to travel. 


NORMAL WISEMAN. 


Normal Wiseman is just 21 years of age and 
at the parting of the ways, opens the “strait” 
gate, and at once enters and begins his journey 
on the narrow road that leads to life everlasting. 
He begins work as a farm laborer with a firm 
determination to become a farmer and later on 
hopes to own his own farm. He is watching 
very closely all that takes place on the farm he is 
doing his work on. He has made for himself a 
program which he is following, and among the 
things that he has decided to do is to use no 
tobacco, flesh meats, salt, vinegar, alcohol, tea, 
coffee or other things that he knows are injurious 
to him. He has read in the new book —A 
Perfect Life and How to Live It —which he has 
received from his mother as a birth-day present, 
what is necessary to be done in order to make 
himself perfect and is following the directions 
therein given. He lives on uncooked foods very 
largely and is very temperate in his eating. He 
rapidly learns how to control himself and soon 
is complete master of himself, both during the 
day and at night when asleep. 

His farmer employer finds that he can fully 
trust him to do any work on the farm and finds 


201 


202 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

him looking after all of the many kinds of things 
to be done with even closer attention than he 
himself has been doing. For this reason at the 
commencement of the second year's service, he 
increases his wages. Normal has learned all 
about all of the farm animals and knows just 
how to please all of them. He does all of this 
by being very kind to them and never in any 
way striking or speaking to them angrily. He 
is the best kind of a friend to everybody and 
everything. His complete and perfect control 
of himself enables him to lead—by gentle means 
—the people as well as the animals, to do any 
right thing that he wishes them to do. 

He attends the literary society in the country 
school-house and is one of the leaders in it, 
although a number of the members are better 
educated and much older in years. He excels 
all of them in the correctness of his statements 
and in the choice of his language. He is always 
free from all worries and cares of all kinds. He 
is always perfectly happy because he sees himself 
constantly improving as he continues his journey 
in the narrow way. His admirers and true 
friends are all the time increasing and he seems 
to scatter a large amount of blessings on all who 
know him. He is teaching by his example 
as well as by his words the beauty in living the 


NORMAL WISEMAN 


203 


perfect life. He has induced a number of 
persons to try living the perfect life. 

He is courting a country maiden and does it 
as a philosopher by making a short call, not 
above once a week, early in the evening unless, 
he can make the weekly call on Sunday after¬ 
noon, which he prefers, as he does not believe 
in a spooning courtship. He loans his sweet¬ 
heart such books as he thinks she is benefited 
by reading. Among them is A Perfect Life 
and How to Live It , as he wants only such a wife 
as will be A Perfect Woman and the Ideal 
Mother . He does not want a doll for a wife, 
but such a woman as will aid him in leading the 
perfect life. This woman must lead a perfect 
life and must become complete master of herself 
before she becomes his bride. As eternity is 
before them and they have time without limit, 
there is no need of either of them being in a hurry 
to marry and neither will think of marriage until 
both have become fully masters of themselves. 
Their marriage is to be a philosophical marriage 
in which children of the very highest class are 
to be produced. There is to be no dissipation 
in connection with their married life. Their 
highest happiness as well as that of their children 
depends largely on how they conduct themselves 
as to each other. They both know the Absolute 
Truth as to what married life should be and are 


204 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

determined fully to comply with all the require¬ 
ments. 

Ten years have elapsed since Normal became 
of age and he is now 31 and the 160-acre farm 
that he wanted is his and he has it fenced and has 
modem buildings, so he and his wife can begin 
housekeeping and farming. Normal is the 
finest appearing man in all of that section of the 
country and his wife, who at commencement 
of their courtship was just an ordinary country 
maiden, is now a perfect woman with no equal 
in that part of the country. Both of these 
people are perfect masters of themselves. Both 
are admired and loved by all who are acquainted 
with them. Both are becoming fully clairvoyant 
and know at any time all such things as will 
happen in the future, so far as these things con¬ 
cern them. 

Twenty years more have passed and both are 
as young looking as they were at the age of 
twenty-five and they are the proud parents of 
eight healthy and happy children ranging in 
ages from four to eighteen, four boys and four 
girls. All of these children were born without 
pain and none were ever sick and all are perfect 
because their parents were perfect. This shows 
what can be done by living a perfect life. 

Twenty more years have passed and Normal 
is now 71 and his wife is 70 and both are grand- 


NORMAL WISEMAN 


205 


parents of numerous grand-children. No deaths 
or sickness has occurred in any of the families 
of their children. Both Normal and his wife 
are as young looking as when they were twenty- 
five and there are no signs of age showing in 
either. This shows what living the perfect life 
will do for humanity. These people have time 
and youth without limit before them so long 
as they live the perfect life. After having 
traveled thus far in the "strait” and narrow 
way that leads to life everlasting, they are not 
likely to abandon it for those foolish pleasures 
that lure so many into the broadway that leads 
to destruction. 

Ignorance is the great cause of the dissipation 
that we see about us. If all the people could be 
rightly educated as to what right living and right 
thinking means, few, if any, would be induced to 
dissipate. We have too many of the blind 
leaders—those who teach false doctrines. These 
blind leaders seem to be ignorant of the real 
truths that were taught by the one they claim to 
follow. He taught everlasting life. 

Jesus taught this doctrine when he said only 
a few found the straight gate that leads to life. 
His words are, " ‘Strait’ is the gate, and narrow 
is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there 
be that find it.” By this he meant that right 
living in all things, would be rewarded by ever¬ 
lasting life. 


IGNORANT FOOLMAN. 


Ignorant Foolman is just 21 years of age and 
at the parting of the ways, opens the wide gate, 
and at once enters and begins his journey on the 
broadway that leads to destruction. He was 
born and brought up on a farm and is in good 
health and has a fair education in ordinary 
matters but never has been able to comprehend 
the Absolute Truth. He has not been able to 
see the great beauty in perfection and considers 
the narrow way one that deprives a person 
traveling in it of all the good in life. He is very 
selfish and wants to enjoy all the cheap and 
sensual pleasures that he can find. 

He begins his life in a city and finds employ¬ 
ment in a restaurant as a waiter. As soon as 
the work hours are over, he seeks company 
among those that claim to know all about the 
places of amusement. So far he has not used 
tobacco, alcoholic drinks, tea, coffee and many 
other unhealthful foods and drinks. He sees 
about all of the men about the city smoking, 
and as he is to enjoy everything, he buys and 
commences smoking his first cigar. After taking 
a few drafts of the smoke into his lungs, he 
becomes dizzy and almost faints. He is dis- 
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IGNORANT FOOLMAN 


207 


gusted with this effort at finding pleasure in 
smoking but only rests for a short time when he 
makes a second effort at it. While he still finds 
it a very disgusting thing, he says to himself all 
of these men smoke and it must be a good thing 
when one gets used to it. He continues the 
effort at learning to smoke until at the end of a 
few months he can smoke as the rest do. He 
has now become the slave of the poisonous 
nicotine. 

He has in the meantime been attending the 
cheap theaters and becomes fascinated with the 
actresses, dressed in their scanty attire. The 
impressions of them are stamped on his mind and 
they appear to him in his dreams and the result 
is impure dreams which after awhile weaken and 
enfeeble him. He consults a doctor and is 
advised to follow a course that is still more 
enervating. He is all the time attending the 
cheap vaudeville theaters and becoming still 
more fascinated by the varied performances. All 
this time he is still holding his position as a 
waiter. He makes the acquaintance of a wait¬ 
ress in another restaurant and proposes marriage 
and is accepted and they are married and live 
in a single room for their home. But neither 
of these two know what marriage is for and their 
life is for this reason one of dissipation. At the 


208 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

end of a few months they each tire of the other 
and agree to separate. Both have a full knowl¬ 
edge of dissipation and if both now fully realized 
what the Absolute Truth means, they could 
reform and live lives of purity. But both are as 
ignorant as before their marriage, and cannot see 
the beauty of the perfect life. Each grasps at 
anything that promises a little temporary pleas¬ 
ure, and so they continue in their broadway that 
leads to destruction. 

Every normal person—either man or woman 
—has a desire for children, and anything that 
prevents this natural desire from being realized, 
is a great and enduring wrong. This result was 
not realized in the marriage we have just des¬ 
cribed, because either one or both of the mar¬ 
ried couple had done something that prevented 
it. The greatest curse conceivable is one that 
makes the person realize that he, or she, is not 
and cannot become a father or mother to chil¬ 
dren of his, or her, own begetting. In all such 
cases they should adopt children of deceased 
persons and make them a substitute for those 
that they were unable to have of their own 
begetting. We cannot see why a family of this 
kind cannot be a happy family. 

Ten years have passed since Ignorant Fool- 
man left his home in the country and began his 


IGNORANT FOOLMAN 


209 


life in the city and he is a nervous, sickly man, 
doing such work as he can find to do to enable 
him to subsist. He is a slave to about all the 
bad habits that are acquired by many of the 
city dwellers. He staggers as he walks and 
spends much of his time loafing about pool-halls 
and other places frequented by his class. His 
blood is impure and his search for happiness 
along the broadway he is traveling is a complete 
failure as he now begins to fully realize. He is 
told by his blind leaders that to get strength he 
must eat plenty of meat and not work so hard 
and he follows this advice and is a confirmed 
invalid, walking with a cane and constantly 
taking into his system poison from a pipe which 
is his constant companion. 

He worries over his condition and fears that 
he will soon die and in this condition calls in a 
minister to help him solve his problem as to 
what is to become of him after death. The 
minister, who has just been feasted on roasted 
pork and mince pie and has finished his after 
dinner cigar, tells him he must say he is sorry 
for any sins he may have committed and believe 
that the way is provided for him to get to heaven 
after he dies if he will join his church and perform 
certain ceremonies that his church requires of all 
who become its members. He is the drowning 


210 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

man grasping at a straw for help and does as 
directed and ignorantly fails to commence to 
live a pure and perfect life that will purify his 
body and mind. He now is a member of the 
church and has its recipe for getting to heaven 
and slavishly performs all the duties required 
by its creeds. No one has enlightened him as to 
how to purify his body and mind, neither the 
doctor nor the minister, and the patient and the 
penitent is still traveling in the broadway that 
leads to destruction. Both of his blind leaders 
assure him that death is sure to overtake him 
and that they are doing all they can for him. 

He continues to grow worse and is not satis¬ 
fied to continue in this condition much longer as 
there is no pleasure in such a life and at the age 
of about forty he takes a dose of poison—as he 
thinks—to end his troubles. This man has 
paid the penalty of his violations of the im¬ 
mutable laws of Nature. His history is the life 
story of all who travel in the broadway that leads 
to destruction. The human race has been mis¬ 
lead for so long a time by blind leaders, that it is 
difficult to get it to realize the Absolute Truth. 
We sometimes marvel at the ignorance of the 
little children because they are entertained by 
mechanical toys. But when we find grown-up 
men and women doing the same foolish things 


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over again and again, we call it social enter¬ 
tainment. 

The only thing of real value is to aid Nature— 
—to develop perfect men and women. Jesus 
refers to this when he speaks of the just men 
made perfect. The rights of all beings under the 
laws of Nature must be fully respected. We 
must use all that is given us to the best ad¬ 
vantage in developing and perfecting all things. 
No animal should be killed, except in defense 
of ourselves or those under our protection. 


NORMA GOODMAN. 


Norma Goodman was born on a farm in one 
of the mid-western states and had parents who 
had been living the perfect life from the time 
they first became acquainted with each other. 
She was a perfect baby at her birth as almost all 
children are. From the time of her birth until 
she was twenty-one, her parents brought her up 
under the directions set forth in A Perfect Life 
and How to Live It and we will give the details 
of how she was developed into a perfect woman. 

She learned to read and write so easily under 
the instructions of her parents that at the age of 
four she could read all of the stories correctly 
in three story books that had been given her and 
amused and entertained her parents, brothers, 
sisters and friends by reading these stories to 
them in a clear and well controlled voice. She 
also had her dolls and dishes and used them in 
playing that she was keeping house. She had 
her pet kitties and puppies and numerous other 
pets as children can have them on a farm. At 
the age of seven, when she commenced attending 
the country school, she had her regular program 
to apportion her time as it was divided up. We 
will give it here for the benefit of other children 
who wish to live a perfect life. 


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9:00 p. m. to 6:00 a. m.—Sleeping. 

6:00 a. m. to 7:00 a. m.—Bathing and Dressing. 
7:00 a. m. to 8:00 a. m.—Eating Breakfast. 

8:00 a. m. to 8:30 a. m.—Exercising. 

8:30 a. m. to 9:00 a. m.—Going to School. 

9:00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m.—Attending School. 

4:30 p. m. to 6:00 p. m.—Exercising. 

6:00 p. m. to 7:00 p. m.—Supper. 

7:00 p. m. to 8:00 p. m.—Exercising. 

8:00 p. m. to 9:00 p. m.—Reading, Speaking 
and Singing. 

She followed this program for many years 
with only slight changes as were necessary on 
days when there was no school. On these days 
she spent much of her time helping with the work 
on the farm. At the age of seven she began 
milking her pet cow regularly and this gave her 
the warm fresh milk with the perfectly live cells 
and the vitamines and as soon as she brought the 
milk to her mother to strain, she was given a glass 
full of it which she drank at once, thus getting 
all the benefits of the perfect food. For her 
breakfast she had a second glass of the same milk 
which she sipped as she ate her freshly ground 
whole-wheat flour, never mixing same with 
milk but eating it dry and chewing it into a 
liquid before swallowing it. After chewing 
each mouthful of the flour into a liquid and 


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swallowing it, she then took a mouthful of the 
milk and worked it about in her mouth so as to 
completely insalivate it before it was swallowed. 
By alternating in this manner with flour and 
milk, she perfectly insalivated both. Her din¬ 
ner—when at school—consisted of whole-wheat 
bread, made from freshly ground whole-wheat 
flour—her parents having a hand mill in which 
they ground all the flour they used—spread with 
fresh—unsalted—butter and fresh comb honey. 
All these foods were produced on their farm. A 
small raw carrot and a half-pint bottle of fresh 
milk was added to the bread as before prepared. 
When there was no school, Norma usually had 
for dinner, roasted white potatoes seasoned with 
fresh cream and one fresh raw egg. For her 
supper she usually had stewed sweet-corn, or 
peas, or string beans with whole-wheat flour 
bread or gems. To this was usually added 
either celery, carrots, lettuce or cabbage, all 
of these fresh raw vegetables being very finely 
cut up by hand or machine. Having always 
sipped her glass of milk at time of milking, she 
ate her supper without any drink. She always 
chewed all of her solid food to a complete liquid 
before swallowing it, thus completely insalivat¬ 
ing it. 

She ate her fruit between meals when she 
was hungry for it. Her only drink besides milk, 


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was pure water and occasionally perfectly fresh 
fruit juice of such fruits as grew on the farm, 
among which were apples, pears, peaches, grapes, 
strawberries and raspberries. Raw fresh nut 
kernels were occasionally used instead of fresh 
raw eggs. She never ate fruit seeds, pits, rinds 
or cores. She ate very slowly and never ate 
after she felt that her hunger had been satisfied 
and she never ate until she was hungry. At the 
age of eight she began studying the book, 
A Perfect Life and How to Live It, and of her 
own accord began putting it into practice. 

Her health was so perfect that she was im¬ 
mune against all of the usual diseases that 
ordinary children are afflicted with. She was 
repeatedly exposed to measles, scarlet fever and 
like contagious diseases but never took any of 
them. Her school record showed her the perfect 
student. She had all the lessons assigned her so 
completely mastered that she always stood 
perfect in the markings. She had a clear, 
strong, musical voice and all who heard her 
read, recite, speak or sing, were surprised at this. 
Her form was perfect. Her hair was extremely 
beautiful, being soft and luxuriant. Her eyes 
were radiant with health and intelligence. She 
always had a pleased expression in her face and 
a kind word to speak to all she met. She always 


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seemed to be ecstatic in her happiness. Her 
movements were easy and graceful. 

She was the strongest girl for her age in the 
school and could outrun all of the other pupils, 
both boys and girls and many were much older 
than she was when the tests were made. She 
could walk on her hands and arms when she 
was clothed in her exercising suit. Each day she 
performed on the parallel bars and other gym¬ 
nasium furnishings. She was as good at the 
different feats as the best lady performers in the 
circuses. She also was very skillful in the use 
of dumb-bells. Having been systematically 
trained in these exercises by her parents and 
older brother and sister, at the age of sixteen, 
she had no equal in agility, strength and beauty. 

She also became clairvoyant and could go 
into her room and hypnotize herself and find 
out what her friends were doing in places long 
distances away from where she lived. Tele- 
pathically she would also read their thoughts. 

At the age of nine,her mother fully instructed 
her as to all matters of sex, and this was of great 
value to her always. Her boy friends tried to 
spoon with her but she would not for a moment 
permit it. She had full knowledge as to the 
evil resulting from it and would not permit it. 
As a consequence at the age of twenty-one, her 


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eyes were as bright and clear as those of a 
healthy baby. She maintained her perfect 
self control at all times and under all circum¬ 
stances. Her perfect life and clairvoyance en¬ 
abled her to master all of the studies perfectly 
in both the High-school and University, and in 
both she had the highest grading possible at 
her graduation. This is what the perfect life 
will do for any girl who will live it as it can be 
lived. 


NEWMAN WISE. 


Newman Wise was born in one of the mid- 
western cities and was the son of a carpenter. 
He was as perfect as boy babies usually are. 
His parents had been living the perfect life for 
a number of years before his birth and had 
one of the books entitled, A Perfect Life and 
How to Live It, and had been using it with great 
benefit to themselves and their older children. 

Newman had been brought up to his seventh 
year strictly according to the directions given 
under the title, Care of Children, and was a fine 
boy at seven. He had already learned to read 
and write and was able to even read some parts 
of A Perfect Life and How to Live It, under- 
standingly. His parents had discontinued the 
use of all kinds of flesh meats including fish and 
as a substitute, used milk, cream, cheese and 
eggs. They were also using as much raw food as 
it was possible to get in the city. They had the 
wheat brought to them fresh from the farm and 
ground all of their flour in a hand-mill as they 
used it, in order to have all of the substances in 
the grain, including the live and perfect cells as 
nature creates them, as well as all of the vita- 
mines. The larger part of this perfect whole- 
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wheat flour was eaten raw by spreading it on 
bread after the bread had been buttered and 
supplied with honey, maple syrup or maple 
sugar. This combination furnishing an ideal 
food, and being dry, was in the best possible 
shape to be perfectly insalivated as it was chewed 
to a liquid. The parents lived in the suburbs 
of the city and had a cow and some chickens 
from which they secured fresh milk and strictly 
fresh eggs. Milking was finished just as break¬ 
fast was ready so that the milk with all the 
vitamines in it could be used. The next milking 
was done in the evening just before supper. All 
the eggs were being eaten raw in order to secure 
all the vitamines and cells in them in a perfect 
condition. 

They also had a garden on the lots they lived 
on and grew their own vegetables which they 
largely used without cooking. Newman was 
furnished a program for his guidance which 
required him to exercise at stated times all of 
the muscles in his body. He was required to 
be in bed at 9 p. m. and to be up at 6 a. m. and 
from 6 a. m. to 7 a. m. he was given his bath and 
some exercise. From 7 a. m. to 7:30 a. m. he ate 
breakfast. From 7:30 to 8:30 he had exercise 
again and after this was exercised in reading 
and speaking at home. At 9 a. m. he was in 


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school and remained there till 4 p, m., when he 
returned home and spent from 4:30 to 6 p. m. 
exercising. His exercise while he was quite 
young was in the nature of play. While quite 
young, he ate his dinner at school and it con¬ 
sisted of whole-wheat bread spread with fresh— 
unsalted—butter and comb honey. Included 
with the bread was a half-pint bottle of fresh 
milk. Also a small raw carrot most of the 
times. 

Newman as he grew older, took great pains 
to live a perfect life, and made a great record in 
both bodily growth and mental development. 
There was no boy in the city that could equal him 
in feats of strength or agility of movements. 
He was the champion in all of the games. He 
was perfect in all of his recitations. His grades 
were always the highest that could be given. 
His health was perfect. He was immune against 
all diseases and never had any of the diseases that 
afflict about all ordinary children. 

Between the age of eight and nine his parents 
gave him full instructions and knowledge as to 
all sexual matters. This saved him from all 
dangers that injure many children. His parents 
always had his full confidence and he always 
went to them for advise in all matters. His 
advancement was so rapid that at twelve he 


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entered the High School and graduated from it 
with the highest possible grades at sixteen. He 
then entered a University and completed his 
course in the prescribed four years with the 
highest attainable grades. 

He was then the champion in all games and 
the finest appearing man in any and all of the 
classes. He had the best formed body, the best 
informed mind as to all general knowledge and 
was the most popular man at the University. 
He then took a special course in physical culture 
and became a teacher of right living in the insti¬ 
tution from which he graduated. 

There is nothing that does so much good in 
every way as bringing up children by teaching 
them to live the perfect life. We hope that 
parents and teachers will from now on try 
harder to teach the children right living and 
right thinking. If they are taught how to live 
perfect lives, when they are grown up they will 
continue to live them. Remember the old 
saying: "Bring up a child in the way he should 
go and when he is old he will not depart from 
it.” 

Remember that every young man and young 
woman who has been kept in ignorance of things 
that they should know while growing up, blame 
the parents and teachers for not having given 


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them the knowledge that they should have had. 
Many of the boys and girls have seriously in¬ 
jured themselves because they did not know 
how to live. And this is especially of the 
greatest importance when it comes to the sexual 
organs. Wrong ideas as to these organs reach 
the boys and girls telepathically and the only 
thing that can be done to offset this is to have 
them know that these organs must not in any 
way be interfered with. They must be left 
alone so they can secrete the life-giving sub¬ 
stances that build and perfect the body. They 
should be taught that any interference with 
them will prevent them from developing into 
mature men and women. 

They should be taught that perfect virtue 
is of the greatest importance. This is a great 
duty that parents and teachers should not fail 
to render to those under their care. 

If children are not fed on flesh meats, fish, 
oysters, clams and lobsters and kept from using 
tobacco, rich and stimulating foods and alcoholic 
drinks, tea, coffee and other like drinks, the 
control of the sexual passions will be much 
easier. They should have the plain and nu¬ 
tritious foods we have advised elsewhere in this 
book. 


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They should also be taught to not eat unless 
they are really hungry and then only a moderate 
amount of the prescribed foods. Raw vegetables 
and raw fruits should constitute a good portion 
of their diet. Every child is anxious to do 
things that will develop it into a perfect man or 
woman and if the right things are taught them, 
they will be glad to put the knowledge into use. 
The great trouble is the failure to furnish the 
knowledge that the children need. If the use of 
the sex organs was taught, as is the use of the 
other parts of the body, the trouble would be 
over with in a short time. 


OLD AGE. 


Old Age is caused by wrong living and 
wrong thinking. Wrong thinking and believing, 
as to length of life, is commenced in infancy 
when the child is being taught that it will die 
when it becomes old like grandma and grandpa. 
In all public prayers—all condemned and for¬ 
bidden by Jesus—death and old age—as a rule— 
are emphasized. The minister emphatically 
declares in his sermon that death is sure to over¬ 
take all. He uses this fatal suggestion to 
frighten people and—as he calls it—convert 
them. Every death and funeral is used to 
convince people that their death is sure to follow 
the age of seventy. All of this is in direct con¬ 
tradiction of what Jesus taught. He said, 
“Let the dead bury the dead.” His sample 
prayer is as follows: “Our Father who art in 
heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom 
come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in 
heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. 
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our 
debtors. And lead us not into temptation, 
but deliver us from evil: For thine is the 
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for¬ 
ever. Amen.” 


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There is not a word about death in this 
prayer. Jesus healed all the sick and never 
taught the doctrine that people had to die in 
order to get to heaven. But mankind has been 
taught death for so long a time and death is so 
universally believed in that it is difficult to get 
this idea out of the minds of the people. Jesus 
taught that those who lived sinless lives would 
not die and that all sickness was caused by sin. 
Under his teachings all who lived perfect lives 
were to continue to live without any limitation 
as to length of life. Because of these wrong 
teachings, an erroneous idea is prevalent among 
all people that death is sure to overtake them— 
sooner or later—no matter what they do. On 
account of this they adopt the maxim: “Eat, 
drink and be merry for to-morrow you die.” 
With this falsehood almost generally believed 
in, it is difficult to get people to believe that by 
living a perfect life they can continue to live 
happily on this earth as long as they desire, if 
it be for a million of years. 

The first thing to do is to get rid of this fatal 
belief. And with the true belief substituted, which 
is that if one lives a perfect life, he can live as 
long as he desires on this earth. He can then at 
once be relieved from all the fear and worry that 
the old belief is the cause of. 


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Then as the old man, or woman, begins to 
eat sparingly the foods we have specified in our 
menus, to exercise more and sleep sounder, they 
soon will be feeling so much better that they will 
be greatly encouraged to try still more effectively 
to live the perfect life, and as they progress they 
will soon begin to realize that they are actually 
growing younger as to all of their bodily organs. 
As soon as substantial progress has been made 
they will be in a much better condition for 
greater improvements. As time passes and 
they are constantly becoming stronger, healthier, 
more youthful in appearance and happier, they 
will then begin to actually know the Absolute 
Truth as to life. 

Besides the wrong belief that causes old age, 
we have to contend against a belief that the 
more we eat the stronger we will become. The 
facts are almost the reverse of this. Every 
mouthful of food above the requirements of our 
system, is an injury to us. The writer's ex¬ 
perience is that frequent short fasts—of from 
one to two days—are highly beneficial to him, 
and he does not stop work in order to take them, 
but actually does more work often while he 
is fasting than when he is eating his two light 
meals each day. In order to have a perfect 
digestion it is necessary to often fast or take only 


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one very light meal each day. As we get so 
much of our nourishment from the air and water 
we use, we often need very little other nourish¬ 
ment. 

We often find that our blood circulates more 
vigorously during the first day of fasting than it 
had for several days previous, and believe this is 
the result caused by undigested food in the 
stomach and intestines being digested during the 
fast. As most all elderly people have an aversion 
to taking a large amount of active exercise, they 
do not need much food and should not—as a 
rule—eat above two meals each day and in many 
cases would be better off on one light meal each 
day with a day or two of fasting every week. 
If they are fleshy people, the one meal a day is 
the thing for them. This will help them to 
reduce the surplus flesh which is always to be 
desired. 

Elderly people should take as much exercise 
as middle-aged and young persons. Nothing 
produces feebleness and poor health any quicker 
than the want of active out-door exercise. The 
old style of doctors have been in the habit of 
prescribing inactivity for old people which is all 
wrong. No matter what the age may be, as 
long as the person is able to get up and walk 
about he, or she, should take all the exercise that 


228 A PERFECT LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT 

it is possible to take in order to keep the blood 
circulating freely throughout the entire body. 
And we are so well convinced of this that we 
unhesitatingly advise all the activity possible 
for old people. 

During the past year, the writer had the 
pleasure of hearing Madam Davenport deliver 
a lecture at the age of ninety-five. She moved 
as actively as a girl of sixteen. And she said 
she delivered lectures in all parts of the world in 
eight different languages, and besides this was 
able to read and understand the Greek and Latin 
languages. The writer, about twenty-five years 
ago, had the pleasure of hearing Susan B. 
Anthony deliver a lecture at the age of about 
eighty, and at that age she showed no signs of 
decay. 

Elderly people usually will live better lives 
than younger persons, and if they will live on 
plain vegetable foods—as largely uncooked as 
possible—and eat light meals when they are 
really hungry and take as much exercise as is 
agreeable to them and observe all the other 
rules we have prescribed in this book, they need 
have no fear of not improving all the time. 

In about seventy years of observation, the 
writer has noticed the many errors that both 
men and women make in their habits of living. 


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He has seen men and women at ages of from 
forty-five to sixty, eating more food at a meal 
than even a young and growing boy or girl 
should eat, the meal comprising as many as 
three kinds of meats, two or three kinds of pie, 
two kinds of cake, besides numerous cooked 
vegetables, preserves, and other articles too 
numerous to mention. These were people who 
had retired from active business and took very 
little exercise. All such people soon became 
diseased, had all kinds of troubles, and passed 
away in a few years. The writer is now well 
satisfied that if they had lived abstemiously as to 
eating and drinking, they could have lived for 
many years, and could they have lived perfect 
lives, they would now be living in perfect health. 

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